Pension reform : at Matignon, two days of consultation without the union

Ten ' organisations and trade unions marched on Thursday and Friday at Matignon for a new series of discussions on the reform flagship of the quinquennium.

"Lot of work" in sight. During two days of talks at the prime minister's office, trade unions and employers have displayed their differences on the pension reform, while the government has nothing unveiled the timetable and the method of the new dialogue to come, that the Prime minister will set out the next week.

The social partners were received on Thursday and Friday by Prime minister Edouard Philippe, the minister of Solidarity, Agnès Buzyn and the high commissioner, Jean-Paul Delevoye, which was issued in July a report intended to serve as a basis for the future "universal system" wanted by Emmanuel Macron to replace the quarantine of existing pension systems.

The head of State, however, desired that a "true negotiation" agrees on this topic, as well as a "great debate" involving citizens in parallel. A semblance of openness, which did not move the lines.

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"We don't like to waste our time", coward Martinez

"We are committed to the pension system as it is today," stressed the secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, deeming it "difficult to have an influence" on the reform. "We discussed 18 months with Jean-Paul Delevoye, and none of our proposals were accepted", he regretted, before adding: "We don't like to waste our time".

also hostile to the project of the executive, the leader of Force ouvrière, Yves Veyrier had already said on Thursday that he would do "everything to prevent" the establishment of a "single scheme by points".

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The frames were on the verge of joining the camp of the opponents : the number one of the CFE-CGC, François Hommeril, said he was "stunned" by the turnaround of Emmanuel Macron, who is now focused on "an agreement on the period of contribution" rather than "age pivot" proposed by Jean-Paul Delevoye. "It's reduced to nil all the work that has been done. We are not agree to start with a blank page", he warned.

The Medef hopes for a reform "in the first part of 2020"

The change of the foot of the president of the Republic was more of a helping hand to the CONFEDERATION, its general secretary Laurent Berger has accepted with caution : "The discussion looks complicated" and risk of"be long", he responded.

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On the same line, Philippe Louis (CFTC) has estimated that"there is a lot of work to do", while Laurent Escure (Unsa), means "to negotiate to the end", while expressing the wish to have "fast enough, in January-February, the knowledge of the draft of law".

A horizon shared by the boss of the Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, who hopes "that this reform should take place in the first part of the year 2020". His counterpart of the CPME, François Asselin, wants him also that the negotiation is "the fastest possible", indicating that if the bill was tabled "to the next summer, this would already be a fine performance".

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on the side of The independent, Alain Griset (U2P) has requested that each profession to be seen individually to address specific problems", otherwise "the situation will be more dangerous for the government as it could be with the special schemes of the public sector. Meanwhile the FNSEA, its president Christiane Lambert has vowed to "work hard" to "improve the situation" of farmers through this reform.

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even Before they receive the social partners, Edouard Philippe had explained on Wednesday that he would take the time to synthesize all of this (he would) said," before announcing "in the course of the next week (his) choice on the method and timing of reform".