Workers who multiply the risks could accumulate more points for retirement. The Ministry of Labor has put on the table several “avenues for reflection” to expand the professional prevention account (C2P), according to a document presented Tuesday to several organizations as part of the consultation on pension reform.
The government unveiled its first “avenues of reflection” to the CFTC, the U2P and the CFDT, which opened the ball for bilateral consultations on the themes of “the employment of seniors and the prevention of professional wear and tear”.
It is precisely on this second part that the executive opened the door to a claim made by several employee organizations, CFDT in the lead. The document, of which AFP obtained a copy, indeed plans to “adapt C2P to better take into account the evolution of risks”.
Points cap removed?
Currently, employees exposed to certain risks (night work, noise, extreme temperatures, etc.) accumulate points – 100 maximum – which are most often used to retire earlier – 2 years maximum.
The ministry, however, mentioned the possibility of “removing the ceiling for acquiring points” and allowing those who are exposed to several simultaneous risks to “acquire more points”.
The idea of a new “retraining leave” to use C2P (which can also be used to pay for training or a part-time transfer) was also discussed.
But the CFDT is still waiting for “a form of resumption of the criteria deleted” from the ex-arduousness account five years ago (carrying heavy loads, painful postures, mechanical vibrations, dangerous chemical agents), indicates its negotiator Yvan Ricordeau.
The “long career” scheme unchanged
Without “major progress” on this point, the union does not intend to review the “long career” system, which allows a departure at 60, or even 58 years for those who started working before the age of 20, and which the government proposes to “modernize”, without specifying its intentions at this stage.
“If it is a question of refining the criteria while protecting the craftsmen, that suits us”, explains the vice-president of the U2P, Jean-Christophe Repon, more worried about the risk of “stigmatising certain trades” through the hardship account.
The ministry seemed “more on the line Prevention is better than curewhich suits us well”, retains the vice-president of the CFTC, Pascale Coton.