Invited this Friday on RTL, the new president of the CPME spoke of the “requirements” of the employers' organization for the next conclave on pensions, however setting aside “red lines”.
“No red lines” on pensions for the CPME. Just elected at the head of the employers' organization, Amir Reza-Tofighi is preparing for the opening of the pensions “conclave” wanted by François Bayrou, which will bring together all the social partners to review the recent (and controversial) reform – if the unions and employers’ organizations manage to reach an agreement.
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“If we all arrive with our red lines, it’s impossible to negotiate,” said the new president of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME) on RTL this Friday morning.
“We have demands” at the CPME “but no red lines,” said Amir Reza-Tofighi.
“Everything is obviously on the table,” repeated François Asselin’s successor, believing that it would be “complicated to negotiate” otherwise. “If everyone […] refuses any discussion, what happens in the end? We arrive and the chips are already cast,” he detailed elsewhere.
-“Do not worsen the public deficit”
“Our demands are to preserve the competitiveness of businesses and not to aggravate the public deficit,” however, qualified the president of the CPME. Future generations “will inherit this debt” and “will not be able to benefit from the investments that we must make today”, he said, taking as an example the investments of at least 500 billion dollars in the artificial intelligence recently announced by Donald Trump in the United States.
“And what do we do in France? We borrow to repay our retirement pensions,” regretted Amir Reza-Tofighi.
Concerning taxation of the wealthiest retirees, an option mentioned by the Minister of Labor and ruled out by the government, Amir Reza-Tofighi was not unfavorable, as was the president of Medef. “In a society today where we have fewer working people, more retirees and we have a standard of living for retirees which is higher than for employees, we consider that it is not always up to employees and companies to pay,” he said.
“These are measures that can be interesting in the budgetary discussion,” said the president of the CPME.
Jérémy Bruno Journalist BFMTV
