This Friday, April 14 will undoubtedly mark a turning point in the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. The flagship measure of his 2022 presidential campaign will undergo the review of the dreaded Constitutional Council. The Elders will have two decisions to make: firstly the shared initiative referendum on the postponement of the legal retirement age, then on the Social Security financing law for 2023, as reported by BFMTV.

Following the decisions that will be taken by the representatives of the Constitutional Council, they will decide to censure the text partially or in its entirety or to approve it completely. The government, and in particular Elisabeth Borne, had given September 1 as the deadline for the application of this very controversial pension reform.

The government’s agenda is therefore filling up with pension reform in mind. The CFE-CGC affirms this theory according to which the text cannot be adopted on September 1. As explained to Le Parisien, “the operational delays would be too short” between the date of promulgation of the law, the writing of the decrees and their publication, the software which will have to be updated and the pension simulators.

Another bad news according to the union would be that “all policyholders eligible to retire under the new conditions from September 1, 2023 or from December 2023 for those born in September 1961 and wishing to retire at the legal retirement age, will not be able to not liquidate their pension when they are entitled to do so”.

Suffice to say that the implementation of the measure will most likely be confused. Even if the demonstrators continue to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the reform, the unions themselves seem to no longer believe in a potential censorship of the text this Friday, April 14, 2023.

In the event of a decision favorable to the government, it will have to be effective in order to modify all kinds of decrees, software among others. The services attached to the government will see a mountain of tasks to be carried out in order to be able to implement the reform as of September 1, 2023.

The texts and decrees are in the first place since, without them, the modification of the various software is altogether impossible. That of the National Old Age Insurance Fund (Cnav) for example or of Agirc-Arrco will have to undergo the modifications of the bill in order to be operational. Retirement simulators will also be overhauled.

The employees of some of these organizations in charge of these modifications are aware of the colossal work that awaits them: “It’s a work of Titan. We will also have to do tests to avoid all the bugs” affirms an agent of the Cnav with the Parisian .

The organizations responsible for managing all these changes are clear about their responsibilities. The Cnav (National Old Age Insurance Fund) does not hide its lack of staff for the upcoming deadlines.

In terms of their workforce, the organization wishes to recruit, and has already called on 200 positions for fixed-term contracts (CDD) and 200 for indefinite-term contracts (CDI). Renaud Villard, current director of the Cnav, insists: “In total, around 10,000 agents will be mobilized as soon as the law is promulgated. And if additional staff are needed, we will do so”.