Gradual retirement: Good news confirmed for employees and officials

The government will open progressive retirement rights from the age of 60 for all private employees and civil servants from September 1. The implementing decrees should appear in June.

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Work less from the age of 60 without slashing your retirement will be possible again. From September 1, 2025, the age of opening up progressive retirement rights for all employees and civil servants will be lowered to 60 years. As a reminder, this device allows you to Perceive part of your retirement While working part -time. The only condition to be fulfilled: having validated at least 150 quarters. Until 2023, this option was already accessible from 60 years old. But there pension reform of that same year, the minimum age is gradually being at 62 years old.

A backtrack denounced by the unions. Result: in the national interprofessional agreement (Ani) signed in the fall of 2024 with the MEDEF, the CFTC and the CFDT, a return of the opening of progressive retirement at 60 was negotiated. If this right was acquired first for the private sector, the CFDT was not long in claiming that “This negotiated measure is also applied in the public service»»said the union in a statement published Friday, April 25.

“An application of the new law on September 1” “

Only State officials (FPE) being affected by this relaxation, agents of Territorial public functions (FPT) and hospital (FPH), stayed on the aisle. An inequality of treatment that the CFDT did not fail to underline, demanding a second decree to repair this forgetfulness. Good news, the latter is indeed in the pipes. Questioned by Capitalthe Ministry of Labor confirms it: “We will publish the two decrees (the first concerning private employees and the FPE, the second for the FPT and the FPH, editor’s note) in Junefor an operational implementation of the new law from the September 1st.»»

Clearly, all of the workers concerned will be able to request a gradual retirement from their 60s, from the next school year. A welcome advance for this system still far too discreet: end of 2024, only 31,000 French Enjoying it, barely 0.2% of retirees by direct law. In particular, in question, a lack of communication around progressive retirement, and requests simply refused. Because to access this precious sesame, it is still necessary to get the approval of the employer. And on this point, the unions made white cabbage. The two decrees currently on the table maintain this possibility of employer vetoto the chagrin of trade union organizations that hoped to make the system enforceable.