The government announced on Sunday a new tightening of unemployment insurance, a reform that Labor Minister Catherine Vautrin defended on Monday morning on RMC/BFMTV. “We have a social model that does not provide enough incentive to return to work,” she repeated, recalling that “today we have about 400 thousand jobs that cannot find takers.”
Among the items that will change is the duration of compensation, which will be reduced to a maximum of 15 months, compared to 18 months today. Conditions for receiving unemployment benefits may also be tightened. “We are simply approaching different European countries,” explains the minister. – Look at Germany: you need to work twelve months out of the last thirty months to be able to receive compensation. In France you must have worked for 8 months out of the last 20 months. »
As for the elderly, the government has announced a bonus for those above 57 years of age. “Older people tell us that finding a job with the same salary may be more difficult,” points out Catherine Vautrin.
Thus, unemployed people over 57 years of age will be able to receive compensation for their new salary for one year if it is lower than the previous one, but not more than 3,000 euros per month. This is “spending aimed at supporting older people and helping them return to work.”
The idea of these reforms “is really to encourage everyone to move towards employment”, the minister reiterated. The speech that angered the unions.
“The worst tightening of compensation conditions”
“This is the worst tightening of compensation conditions ever introduced. When the social partners were in control, you had to work four months out of 28 months, and now we have reached eight months out of 20,” notes FO’s Michelle Bogas with AFP. “This will reduce by more than 15% the number of job seekers who will receive unemployment benefits, meaning we will leave already precarious job seekers in instability and poverty,” he added.
“This is a populist reform,” François Hommeril, secretary general of the CFE-CGC leaders, blasted the RMC on Sunday, accusing the government of lying to “pick the pockets” of employees by stigmatizing the unemployed.
“I agree that this is a difficult reform,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Sunday during a European campaign trip to Etrechy (Essonne).
Source: Le Parisien
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