For Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, the executive must review its copy on the employment of seniors. The president of Medef spoke out on Monday against a “minimum percentage of seniors” in companies, a line of thought put on the table by the government.
“I don’t see how we can put this in place in a reasonable way,” he replied to the Echoes, asked about an “index on the employment of seniors” in the same spirit as that in force on professional equality between men and women. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has made “the employment of seniors and the fight against discrimination that seniors may be victims of” one of the axes of future consultations around the pension reform.
Silence on retirement age
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt, who is piloting this controversial reform, confirmed in an interview with the JDD that the creation of this index “will be part of the discussions” that he will have with the social partners in the coming weeks. “It makes no sense, for example, to ask start-ups to have a minimum percentage of seniors,” Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux told the economic daily.
The president of Medef, on the other hand, did not comment on the thorny subject of the retirement age. The low employment rate of seniors is often brandished as an argument against the government’s pension reform, which plans to raise the retirement age to 64 and then 65 by 2031 to ensure the financial balance of the system.