RETRAITES SANS RETRAITE COMME STADE ULTIME DE LA PRECARISATION ET DE L’INFORMATISATION GENERALISEE DES EMPLOIS AU CAMEROUN
RETIREMENT PENSION WITHOUT STAGE AS THE ULTIMATE CAUZALIZATION AND COMPUTERIZATION GENERALIZED JOBS IN CAMEROON

Summary/Abstract: Speaking of retirement systems is not only a question of addressing the rights linked to retirement (a period of a worker’s life), the conditions to get access to these rights, but also the practical modalities for their realization. This means that the law states the legal age for retirement and a set of social advantages intended to enhance the protection of the known fundamental rights of the human person. Concerning the management of retirement, Cameroon has opted for a repartition system. According to Louis-Paul Motazé, Minister of Economy, Planning and Urban management, this system inspires itself more from psychology and from the context of African population, by bringing out clearly the concept of solidarity between generations. The consecration of retirement rights in the Cameroonian law gets its fundaments in Cameroon’s colonial history and in its effort of internalizing the international law. This law comes as an extension of social security put in place. Despite the fact that retirement rights had been weakened through brutal implementation measures of the structural adjustment programme instigated by IMF and the World Bank to reduce public deficits, its accessibility remains compromised by bureaucratic obstacles and widespread corruption. More so, the retirement system actually in place is outdated due to the fact that it didn’t integrate the economic evolutions of the society. These evolutions consisted essentially in promoting the informal sector which has created a large group of workers without real legal status. In this arena of diverging interests, the defense of employment would need a strong syndicalism. Regrettably, the repressive nature of the state has curbed down the emergence and development of a militantsyndicalism, and maintaining a tendency of stigmatization in public speeches of every contesting attempt. It follows that the young generations of workers have an equivoque perception of the syndical action, seeing it as a risk for those who dare to break the established order or instances of corruption orchestrated by some opportunists.

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