“Why not”, judges Medef

The president of Medef Patrick Martin estimated Tuesday that the possibility of a contribution from certain retirees to the financing of social protection mentioned by the Minister of Labor Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet was possible. “temporarily, in a targeted manner, by protecting small pensions”. Asked on BFMTV about the proposal from the Minister of Labor, he replied: “Why not? Temporarily, in a targeted manner, by protecting small pensions and distributing the effort equitably”. “If everyone has to participate in the war effort, why not”he added, recalling that retirement was “a pay-as-you-go system and therefore it is the employees and companies who pay for pensions”.

“At a minimum, the effort requested from companies under the 2025 budgets is 12 to 13 billion euros. In comparison, the reduced CSG rate for retirees is 11.5 billion per year”noted the one who asked at the beginning of January to remove the deduction for professional expenses for retirees and align their CSG rate with that of active people. “I'm not saying that retirees must pay everything, but if there can be a sharing of effort…”he added. “We must never lose sight of the fact that the best response is to reduce public spending, and I will not give up on the subject”however insisted Patrick Martin. The president of Medef was received for more than an hour on Tuesday in Matignon, noted an AFP journalist.