The government is “open” to proposals from the Republicans on amendments to the pension reform, in particular on the situation of women, said Sunday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, two days before the examination of the text in the Senate, controlled by the right.
The boss of the Les Républicains group in the upper house, Bruno Retailleau, proposed in particular on Saturday in The Parisian either a “surcharge of 5% for mothers who have reached both a full career and the legal age, or an early departure at 63 years old”.
“We agree and are open”, replied Olivier Dussopt on Sunday on BFMTV, explaining that “having different starting ages between women and men is not very fair”.
The situation of women, a point to improve?
“In the text, the project that we have to improve and continue concerns the situation of women who, having had children, reach retirement age (…) with quarters validated for maternity” who will suffer of a “neutralization effect” and will be “lost” due to the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64, agreed Olivier Dussopt.
“We can find solutions”, he continued, while the reform must be examined from Tuesday by the senators, ten days after heated debates in the Assembly.
The government, he argued, is considering, for example, “telling yourself that from a certain age, if you have not reached the age of eligibility for rights (…) but your career is already complete, the quarters that you continue to do give rise to a premium”, without specifying the rate.
For their part, the unions committed against the reform have called for the country to be “stopped” on March 7.