PARIS, Dec. 6 -- French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Friday justified a plan to overhaul pension regime, which triggered massive protests, but promised a social dialogue.
"We made the choice of social dialogue. We have met with as many unions' representatives ... as possible... The social dialogue is to respect the timetable which we have already defined, listen and try to insert proposals (into the planned reform)," Philippe said.
"I think that implementing a universal system that guarantees retirement for French and their children deserves an in-depth and clear debate," he added.
The prime minister pledged to detail next Wednesday the modalities to set on the contested reform, which, he said, would ensure "fairness, solidarity and soundness" of the country's pension system.
In one of his major campaign promises, President Emmanuel Macron proposes to merge the variety of 42 different pension set-ups for different professions into a universal system.
The new single regime would use points so that each euro paid in would give the same retirement benefits no matter which sector pensioners worked in.
That meant to scrap the special transport worker status, which allows workers to retire on full pension at 52, a decade before other French employees.
The government argued that the reform is needed to bring costly pension system into balance. Critics say that would effectively force people to work longer, in particular public sector workers who have been allowed to retire earlier often because of hard working conditions.
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