The End of Special Pension Plans: Are You One of Those Professions That Will Avoid It?

Although the pension reform acts as the abolition of special schemes (for new employees from September 1), not everyone is called to perish on the altar of “capital”. Some of them were fired by management.

“This measure does not apply to special pension schemes (seafarers, the Paris Opera, the Comédie-Française), as well as autonomous schemes for liberal professions or agricultural programs,” said Prime Minister Elisabeth Bourne during the presentation of the reform.

How did the government deal with this? For the first three reasons, the specified reason refers to the conditions for making transactions. As for the fishermen, “difficulty and difficulty are not subject to proof,” said Renaissance MP Charlotte Parmentier-Lecoq during a debate in the social affairs committee. It’s the same with the ballerinas of the Opera, whose “conditions wear out the body.”

With regard to the provision of special treatment for employees of the Comédie Francaise, the argument made more than one deputy and senator on the right cough. With regard to agricultural schemes and large schemes for the liberal professions (lawyers, notaries, doctors, pharmacists, dentists, midwives, architects, etc.), completely different considerations prevailed in arbitrations, since each of them has its own independent pension fund.

A separate regime is also provided for airline pilots, truck drivers and police officers.

Other professionals have also received special treatment in the name of the complexity of their profession. Although they will certainly have to work two more years, airline pilots (who left at age 60 on a full-time basis) have secured a pension supplement between 63 and 65, and truck drivers continue to enjoy their special regime (activity leave that allows them to stop working). five years before coming of age) until 2030.

With regard to the police, a few days after the call to strike (in early March) an emergency meeting was held between the Minister of the Civil Service, the Minister of the Interior and the trade unions.

Result: police officers, as well as fire, customs and prison officers, that is, 700,000 people in the active categories, will be able to continue to leave ten years before reaching adulthood (compared to five years in special regimes) in exchange for a gradual shift of two years from age dismissals, learned in the Ministry of State.

Another bonus, if they leave the active category and move, for example, to an administrative position, the benefits received by them (including early departure) are preserved, which was not the case before. “These are the big winners of reform,” remarks a member close to the government.