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Demonstrators marching behind a banner reading “withdrawal of pension reform, for higher salaries and an increase in retirement benefits”, in Toulouse, June 6, 2023.

The worth retained for the rise will not be a shock however the circumstances wherein it was set are, nevertheless, far more shocking. Tuesday, October 15, the social companions determined to extend by 1.6% the pensions paid by Agirc-Arrco, the supplementary plan for personal sector workers that unions and employers co-manage. A really uncommon – maybe unprecedented – reality is that this alternative was ratified regardless of opposition from Medef, although this employers’ motion workouts a figuring out affect, in bizarre instances, on the administration of the system. A consequence obtained because of the alliance of 5 worker organizations and the Union of Local Businesses (U2P), which defends merchants, craftsmen and the liberal professions. Such an final result is prone to trigger some sparks between the protagonists, on the very second once they should open discussions, on the request of the federal government, on unemployment insurance coverage and the employment of seniors.

The revaluation, which was recorded on Tuesday by the board of administrators of Agirc-Arrco, takes impact from 1er November for the subsequent twelve months and issues round 14 million folks. It seems to be 0.2 factors decrease than the inflation anticipated for 2024 (i.e. + 1.8%), which is in accordance with the foundations that the unions and employers have given themselves to handle the regime. For this monetary 12 months, it’s deliberate that supplementary pensions will observe the evolution of costs however can be diminished by 0.4 factors, which might lead to a rise of 1.4%. The social companions, nevertheless, have the opportunity of transferring away a bit from this proportion (by 0.4 factors, each upwards and downwards), beneath an settlement they’ve signed.

Several worker organizations took benefit of those margins of maneuver to demand, initially of Tuesday’s assembly, a rise of 1.8%. Medef, in addition to the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), proposed + 1.5%. Ultimately, a majority emerged in favor of the +1.6% situation.

“We agreed to move forward together”

It is about“good news for retirees”declared Wednesday morning, Marylise Léon, the overall secretary of the CFDT, on the Public Sénate tv channel. “We have reached a satisfactory common ground”entrusted to World Michel Beaugas, confederal secretary of Force Ouvrière. “We demanded progression equal to inflation, which was completely legitimate. However, in the spirit of responsibility, we have collectively found a point of convergence at +1.6%”continues Christelle Thieffinne, on behalf of the CFE-CGC. The CGT, via its confederal secretary, Denis Gravouil, ” born [crie] not victory »as a result of it additionally demanded + 1.8% initially of negotiations. But it most popular to present the inexperienced mild to the +1.6% resolution, identical to the opposite unions and the U2P, in any other case there was a threat, in response to Mr. Gravouil, of ending up with a decrease worth. , and even an absence of revaluation, as a result of distribution of voting rights inside the board of administrators.

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