The value retained for the increase is not a surprise, but the conditions under which it was set are much more so. On Tuesday, October 15, the social partners decided to increase by 1.6% the pensions paid by Agirc-Arrco, the complementary plan for private sector employees jointly managed by unions and employers. A very unusual fact – perhaps unprecedented – is that this election was ratified despite the opposition of Medef, although this business movement exerts a determining influence, in normal times, on the management of the system. A result obtained thanks to the alliance of five worker organizations and the Union of Local Companies (U2P), which defends merchants, artisans and the liberal professions. Such a result will probably cause sparks between the protagonists, at a time when they must open debates, at the request of the Government, on unemployment insurance and the employment of the elderly.
The revaluation, registered on Tuesday by the board of directors of Agirc-Arrco, comes into effect from 1Ahem November for the next twelve months and concerns about 14 million people. It turns out to be 0.2 points lower than the expected inflation for 2024 (that is, + 1.8%), which is in accordance with the rules that unions and employers have given themselves to manage the regime. For this year, it is expected that complementary pensions will follow the evolution of prices but will be reduced by 0.4 points, which would mean an increase of 1.4%. The social partners, however, have the possibility of moving away a little from this percentage (0.4 points, both up and down), according to an agreement they have signed.
Several worker organizations took advantage of these margins of maneuver to demand, at the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting, an increase of 1.8%. Medef, as well as the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), proposed + 1.5%. In the end, a majority emerged in favor of the +1.6% scenario.
“We agreed to move forward together”
it’s about“Good news for retirees”declared Wednesday morning, Marylise Léon, general secretary of the CFDT, to the television channel of the Public Senate. “We have reached satisfactory common ground”entrusted to World Michel Beaugas, confederal secretary of Force Ouvrière. “We demanded a progression equal to inflation, which was completely legitimate. However, in a spirit of responsibility, we have collectively found a convergence point of +1.6%.”continues Christelle Thieffinne, on behalf of CFE-CGC. The CGT, through its confederal secretary, Denis Gravouil, ” born [crie] not victory”because he also demanded +1.8% at the beginning of the negotiations. But he preferred to give the green light to the +1.6% solution, like the other unions and the U2P, otherwise there was a risk, according to Gravouil, of ending up with a lower value or even no value at all. revaluation, due to the distribution of voting rights within the board of directors.
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