The Pensions Advisory Council recommends raising the retirement age, the CGT denounces a "biased" report
By The New Obs with AFP
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COR President Gilbert Cette at the National Assembly in Paris on October 21, 2024. AMAURY CORNU / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
The CGT (General Confederation of Labour) considered the new report of the Pensions Advisory Council (COR) to be "totally biased" , deploring the fact that the president of this body, the economist Gilbert Cette , was "on a mission ordered" by the Elysée Palace by favouring the postponement of the retirement age in order to preserve the system.
"There is a scandal in the fact that only one recommendation has been targeted. Until now, the COR has made assumptions and it has been up to politicians to decide. Now, it's completely biased," lashed out CGT representative Denis Gravouil, responsible for social protection and pensions, in an interview with AFP.
"Gilbert Cette (the president of the COR, editor's note) is on a mission ordered by Emmanuel Macron," criticized the unionist, noting that the "preliminary report" was presented the day after the symbolic vote by the deputies on a resolution for the repeal of the 2023 reform, which notably provides for the increase in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
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In its report, consulted by AFP and which is to be formally adopted on June 12 in plenary assembly, the COR described as "recessionary" three of the four avenues for preserving the financial balance of the system (moderation of the growth of pensions net of deductions, increase in pension contributions from employees, increase in pension contributions from employers). It suggests a fourth option: "raising the retirement age which allows an increase in employment rates."
“Electrify or bias the work of the current “conclave””"The COR only exists through the opinions of its council; it meets on Thursday. So there is no guidance on pensions currently available at the COR level... unless it wants to electrify or distort the work of the current 'conclave'. This is unacceptable," Yvan Ricordeau, deputy general secretary of the CFDT, told AFP.
The report is being published as negotiations to rediscuss the 2023 reform - discussions from which both the CGT and FO unions withdrew - have entered the final stretch, with a view to concluding on June 17.
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