An explosive year lies ahead as the last time these policies were tried there were months of industrial unrest and protests.
April 2022: Protests in France as Macron re-electedMr Macron's justification for raising the retirement age is that France cannot afford to allow so many workers to retire at so young an age.
He told the French public in his new year address:"We must work longer. The aim of the reform is to strengthen the pension system. If we do nothing it will be threatened, as we will rely on debt to finance it."France already has a significantly lower proportion of older workers still active in its workforce than other advanced economies.
Germany, which is already grappling with shortages of key worker groups such as nurses, is even mulling a further increase in the retirement age. Even Italy, one of the few European countries with a lower labour force participation rate among older workers than even France, is in the process of doing so.
There were similar demonstrations, involving more than one million protestors, when in 2003 another prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, sought to make public sector employees work for 40 years to qualify for a pension, as was the case with their peers in the private sector. That measure actually made it onto the statute book despite weeks of strikes.
The proposals led to the longest strike in French history and were abandoned at the outset of the COVID pandemic.The prize, though, makes it worth a try. France, like other European countries including the UK, is grappling with shortages of skilled workers due, in no small part, to people taking early retirement.
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