The former Prime Minister new CEO of the Ile-de-France region

Public transport: faced with criticism and anger from users, Jean Castex unveiled his new plan for the RATP
Disrupted traffic, crowded trains, delays: criticism is multiplying against the Ile-de-France transport network. The former Prime Minister, new CEO of the Ile-de-France region, promises new hires to deal with the situation.
Operating difficulties, forgotten luggage, passenger discomfort… Incidents have become widespread on Ile-de-France transport lines in 2022. According to the Regional Transport Authority, 10 to 20% of the offer has not been carried out last year, when the tariffs were increased.
The climate is tense, and users are angry. In this context, during a press conference, organized on Friday January 13, the CEO of RATP, Jean Castex, promised an improvement in service.

One in five buses stays at the depot every day
“We plan to recruit 4,500 people, including 2,500 bus drivers, and 400 metro drivers. That is to say, we are going to be on a train that will be almost double that of 2022”, declared the former Prime Minister.

One in five buses remains at the depot each day, for lack of drivers, and seven metro lines are regularly delayed. In addition, modernization work drags on. The RATP criticizes Île-de-France Mobilités in particular for having underestimated the post-Covid return of Ile-de-France residents to transport.
The difficulty of the professions is at the heart of the battle around the pension reform. The government prefers to speak of “professional wear and tear” and does not want, he says, to recreate special regimes. The unions, unanimously, are opposed to this change.
Sarah Lemoine, from the economy and social service of franceinfo, chose the word “difficulty” this week.
franceinfo: This word hardship at work poses a real problem in the context of this pension reform…

Hardship at work: a word that the government carefully avoids using. Instead, he uses the term “professional wear and tear”. “To avoid suggesting that the work can be painful”, explained Emmanuel Macron in 2017. The subject is however at the heart of a battle with the unions within the framework of the pension reform.

The subject of contention is the carrying of heavy loads, painful postures and mechanical vibrations?

These three hardship factors, very present in the construction industry, are the cause of almost all occupational diseases. In 2015, however, the subject was taken head-on. A hardship account has been created as part of the Touraine reform. It allows employees in the private sector, exposed to these three factors, but also to night work, work in alternating shifts, noise, or extreme temperatures for example, to accumulate points during their career. Subject to exceeding very precise thresholds and durations of exposure.
The points are then used to train, to work part-time. Or from retirement two years earlier. But in 2017, whammy, Emmanuel Macron reshuffles the account and removes heavy loads, painful postures and mechanical vibrations. The follow-up and the attribution of the points being considered too complex by the employers.

The unions are demanding their return to the hardship account. But they didn’t get satisfaction…

The government refuses that employees exposed to heavy loads, painful postures or mechanical vibrations benefit from automatic early retirement. No question of recreating special diets, he says. For them, it will therefore be on medical advice. Like today. But with some improvements. The professional branches will be obliged to identify the professions exposed to these three ergonomic factors.

The workers concerned will benefit from reinforced medical monitoring from the age of 45, with the Occupational doctor. If they wish, they will have access to real retraining leave, with maintenance of the salary throughout the duration of the training. This is the great novelty.

But if the employee continues his activity, what happens?

He will have to pass a last medical examination at the age of 61, compulsory, this time, with the social security medical adviser. It is he who will judge his state of health. If he can keep working. Or if he can benefit from an early departure for incapacity or disability. At 62, two under the legal age. And at full rate, even if the person doesn’t have all their quarters.

Reinforced medical monitoring is supposed to guide more employees towards these early departure schemes, which are not always known. The government will finally relax the criteria for accessing retirement for permanent disability, from the age of 62. Not enough for the unions.

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