“We have to stop with this very binary idea of the end of career, where we are 100% active, or 100% inactive”hammered this Wednesday, May 7, the Minister of Labor Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet. A “French specificity” who certainly explains why the working time development devices at the end of their careers are also unusual In France. For proof: “Each year, barely 0.5% people who retire to call on gradual retirement»»she deplores. It is precisely this lock that the government wants to blow up with the bill in favor of employment for 50 years and over, presented in the Council of Ministers this Wednesday, May 7. This text, which transposes the interprofessional national agreements (Ani) signed in November 2024 between the social partners and the employers, hears soften the slope of the end of career employees close to retirement.
Limit refusal of work time arrangements
In particular by asking the employer to motivate his decision to refuse you a working time planning. In other words, if you want to spend 80% of hours worked – “Whether within the framework of a progressive retirement or any other part -time passage request”specifies the cabinet of the Ministry of Labor -, your employer will no longer be able to refuse. At least, not without explanation. Because he will now have justify your decision by arguments precise: be proven that your partial absence would endanger the organization service is to demonstrate that it is Impossible to recruit on your post. And in the absence of a valid reason, the company will have no choice but to access your request.
Second good news: if you reduce your working time at the end of your career, a company agreement may allow you to Touch your retirement bonus in advancemonth after month, to compensate for your loss of income. Example highlighted by the government: that of a 60 -year -old plumber with 30 years of seniority. He decides to increase to 70% working time in January 2026. But rather than waiting for his final departure to receive his two months of retirement, his employer pays him a fraction of this sum to raise his remuneration each month. Result, he works less, without cutting too much on his pay sheet. The balance will be paid to him in once during his effective departure retired.
An implementation in September?
Asked about the calendar at the end of the Council of Ministers, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet does not hide his impatience. “It’s time to take action. “ The bill will thus be examined in the Senate from the June 5then in the National Assembly in stride. “If the calendar is respected, the measures will come (therefore) in force from September 2025»»we confirm to Capital On the side of the Ministry of Labor. A rapid application that would coincide with that of decrees relating to progressive retirement, which provide for its opening to all employees and officials from the age of 60, from September 1, 2025.
