2023-11-28 11:46:26
In Paris, January 6, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
Seeking an armistice with the government. Tuesday, November 28, unions and employers began new negotiations on Agirc-Arrco, the supplementary private pension fund that they co-manage on an equal basis. Their goal is to “define solidarity mechanisms”in order to put an end to the conflict which has opposed them, for months, to the executive on this issue.
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The first discussion session, Tuesday morning, at the national headquarters of Medef, comes a little over a month after the ceasefire offer made by Bercy. On October 24, Thomas Cazenave, the Minister for Public Accounts, declared that the power in place no longer intended, ” at this stage “, to carry out a unilateral withdrawal from the resources of Agirc-Arrco. A gesture of appeasement accompanied by a condition: the opening of talks between employers’ and employees’ organizations so that they can quickly provide financial participation in favor of our pay-as-you-go system, for example in the form of measures improving small pensions.
Mr. Cazenave had specified that if his grievances were not satisfied, the government would table, as planned, an amendment to the Social Security financing bill, currently being examined in Parliament, in order to drain the revenues of the ‘Agirc-Arrco for the benefit of the general pension system.
Hand held out
With the launch, Tuesday morning, of a negotiation, the social partners responded positively to the proposal of the Minister for Public Accounts to find an amicable solution to their quarrel, which had resulted in strong tensions. At the beginning of the fall, unions and employers were accused by the executive of having “burned the box”because of the agreement concluded on October 5, which was favorable to people covered by Agirc-Arrco: revaluation of 4.9% of supplementary pensions, elimination of a penalty system, etc.
So many additional expenses that the government had not planned and which are likely to reduce the savings linked to the pension reform. On November 21, in front of business leaders invited to the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron alluded to this by implicitly accusing employers’ and employees’ organizations of wanting to “redistribute” while our ” public finances (…) do not give the impression that we can relax the effort”.
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Despite this remonstrance from the Head of State, Aurélien Rousseau, the Minister of Health, affirmed on November 23 that there was no “no ambiguity about the trust we place in the social partners to resolve this subject of liability”.
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