SENIOR INDEX. The Constitutional Council will make its decision this Friday, April 14 on the pension reform bill. The senior index could well be abandoned.
[Updated April 14, 2023 at 11:27 a.m.] The Constitutional Council will make its decision this Friday, April 14, around 6 p.m. on whether or not to validate the government’s pension reform project. The trend is towards partial censorship, and one point should be at the center of all attention: the senior index. Its objective is to keep the employment of people aged 55 and over afloat by making their number public. In other words, increase transparency. This index could come into force from November 2023 for companies with more than 1,000 employees, and in July 2024 for those with between 300 and 1,000 employees. What if companies do not comply with this directive? A financial penalty corresponding to 1% of the payroll of the latter would then be applied.
But then, can this index on the employment of seniors be challenged by the Constitutional Council? Absolutely. It is even the measure that is most likely to never see the light of day. The government having chosen an amending Social Security financing bill (PLFSSR), the senior index should, in theory, have a budgetary impact on the year 2023. This is not necessarily the case. An argument that the nine Sages could put forward this Friday. Do you need a short summary of the pension reform project on the table for many months? Here it is :
