It was expected and above all dreaded. At EDF and the RATP. As of this fall, staff and unions of these large public companies, affiliated with special pension schemes, subject to derogations, with retirement ages at 52 and 57, knew they were in the crosshairs of the government and its reform. retirements. It is now confirmed. Tuesday, January 10, Elisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister, revealed, during the presentation of this project, to want “to put an end to a certain number of situations which may appear as privileges” by providing for the progressive extinction of these regimes inherited from the post-war period.
This reform will therefore apply to “new hires at RATP, in the electricity and gas industries branch and at the Banque de France”starting from 1is September 2023, the executive announced. With, as a key, a “grandfather clause”, like what had been done in the context of the closure of the special SNCF regime during the 2018 reform. However, the current employees of these companies will not be spared from the two-year lag of the legal retirement age, for example from 62 to 64 by 2030 in energy. And this, while some, such as the liberal professions and lawyers, will be able to preserve their specific regime. Just like the sailors, the employees of the Paris Opera and the Comédie-Française.
In response, the unions are already on a war footing. In addition to the call to demonstrate on January 19, they evoke other actions in energy, in particular production cuts in power plants. “It’s a historic struggle that begins”warns Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the National Federation of Mines and Energy CGT (FNME-CGT). “If the electricians and gas workers are massively on strike and in the streets, this means that they will not be on the networks and on the means of production, and therefore that there will necessarily be an impact on the system”, he warns. For its part, the CGT-Pétrole calls for several days of strikes and ” if necessary [à] the stop » refining. An inter-union discussion is scheduled for Monday, January 16.
“Everyone is overwhelmed”
Among electricians and gas workers, the average retirement age was 60 in 2021. Some were nevertheless able to leave earlier, at 58 on average, by claiming hardship measures, but their proportion is dwindling from year to year. In this context, the grandfather clause does nothing to reassure employees in the sector. “No one believes in this promise, everyone is overwhelmedcontinues Stéphane Chérigié, national secretary responsible for social dialogue at CFE-Energie. We have clearly seen that, in other companies, this clause had created differentiated remuneration between those who are on the general scheme and those who are not. »
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