A new end-of-career agreement at SNCF for "restrict" the effects of pension reform
The main unions and management are preparing, Monday April 22, to ratify a new “early cessation of activity” system, allowing retirement, while remaining paid by the company. More concretely, he proposes splitting the end of careers into two periods. One where the employee works and is paid 100%. Then another, where he no longer works, but remains paid at 75%.
Generally speaking, railway workers will benefit from this system for 18 months, until their effective retirement. This could rise to 30 months for those who have jobs considered “challenging”, such as switchers or drivers, and even up to 36 months for controllers. According to one of the group’s main unions, this involves modernizing a system that already exists, the CPA, “progressive cessation of activity”, which therefore becomes “early cessation of activity”.
This agreement is already considered valid, since it has obtained the signature of unions which represent more than 50% of the staff: the CGT, the group’s first union, the CFDT and the Unsa. Sud-rail, for its part, is consulting its troops. “For the moment we are moving towards a signature”, we assure within the organization. For Unsa, this device is a means of “limit the impact of pension reform”with its postponement of the starting age and the end of special diets.
Regarding the cost of this new system, SNCF management refuses to comment before signing the agreement, which takes place a few months before the Paris Games. Controllers and switchers had gone on several strikes recently, like last February.
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