2023-09-06 10:00:04
They give themselves a month, at the most, to try to reach a compromise. After a first exchange, in July, devoted to the agenda and the method, the social partners resumed their negotiations, Tuesday, September 5, on Agirc-Arrco, the private supplementary pension fund that they co-manage. The meeting confirms that the unions remain, after their “glorious defeat” against the government during the pension reform, in a combative mood and united on at least one demand: the abolition of the malus – an emblematic measure implemented in 2019 to to encourage workers to prolong their professional career. The Medef does not close the door to this grievance, but sets its conditions for following up on it.
Tuesday’s meeting is part of a discussion process which aims to revisit the rules of Agirc-Arrco for the period 2023-2026, while setting the level of the revaluation of supplementary pensions from November 1. Arbitrations that are being watched with great interest since the scheme – the second largest in our pay-as-you-go system – pays, over one year, a little over 86 billion euros in benefits to thirteen million women and children. ‘men. At this stage, the representatives of business leaders and workers have planned to meet four times, the last meeting being scheduled for 4 October.
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While the postponement of the legal age of departure has just come into force, the unions are demanding the repeal of the device called “coefficient of solidarity” : this is a temporary discount (or malus) of 10% applied to the supplementary pension of people who retire as soon as they are entitled to the full rate for their basic pension – the aim being to encourage them to remain active. In 2021, some 260,000 individuals suffered a reduction of this type, according to a study by DREES – the research department of the health and social ministries. Agirc-Arrco thus saves approximately 500 million euros per year.
A largely profitable scheme
“It would be unfair” to maintain such a mechanism, challenged, on Tuesday, Christelle Thieffinne, national secretary CFE-CGC, because the pension reform, promulgated on April 14, already requires workers to stay longer on the job market. The disappearance of the malus is a condition sine qua non for FO to sign a possible draft agreement, indicated, in essence, Michel Beaugas, the representative of the confederation: it is a decision whose cost (500 million euros per year, therefore) does not weigh ” Nothing “he added, citing the flourishing situation of the regime.
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