2023-07-11 11:27:00
The government agreed on Monday at dawn on a pension reform. A progressive bonus system will be introduced to support the retention of older workers. The agreement reached after a night of negotiations completes the agreement reached a year ago in this area. Among the measures taken: the capping of the equalization of civil servants’ pensions. What does this “equalization” mean? And what is its ceiling?
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Take the case of a civil servant and that of a retired civil servant who had the same status. The first receives a salary, the second receives a pension. If the civil servant sees his salary increase, the pensioner will also see his pension increase. This is called “equalization”. This Monday, the federal government decided to cap this system. The maximum increase will be 0.3%.
“Disrespecting social consultation”
But as soon as this reform was announced, the public service unions expressed their dissatisfaction in a common front. “80% of the minimum effort is borne by civil servants. For us, this is unacceptable”, says Michel Meyer, president of the CGSP. The unions deplore a lack of consultation. “When we see the impact of equalization over the last 10 or 15 years, we say to ourselves that 0.3%, we hardly ever get there again. It’s not really the reform as such but the methodology used and flouting social consultation”, he adds.
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This Monday, after the government’s announcement, the unions issued an ultimatum: they wanted a meeting with the Prime Minister. It will ultimately be with the Minister of Pensions. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday.
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