The pension reform is not planned for tomorrow in France. Jean Castex affirmed at the end of the government’s re-entry seminar at the Elysee Palace that the conditions for deploying it were “still not met”. These famous conditions? A pandemic under control and a solid economic recovery.
The Prime Minister recalled that this reform was “a necessity” to restore the balance of the system. “We have the imperative duty to promote as much as possible the unity of the country”, he added, alluding to the opposition of the unions and the reluctance on this reform even within the ranks of the majority, a few months away. of the 2022 presidential election.
Green light for unemployment insurance reform
The Prime Minister, on the other hand, assured that the reform of unemployment insurance, suspended due to the Covid-19 crisis, was “absolutely essential” and indicated that it would be gradually applied “between October 1 and December 1 “. Jean Castex presented this reform as one of the responses “to the difficulties of recruitment”, aiming “to restore order in a fundamentally useful regime but from which the rules had gradually derived”.