New compensation rules for job seekers will be set from July 1 by the government, taking note of the “disagreement” between the social partners, according to a press release published this Monday by the Ministry of Labor. The executive will issue “a deficiency decree” which will have “the objective of helping to achieve full employment and promoting the rapid return to employment of unemployed people receiving compensation”, indicates the press release. As in 2019, employers and unions are once again losing control over the definition of these rules to the benefit of the executive.
Three levers to tighten the rules
Unemployment insurance was governed by a deficiency decree which expired at the end of 2023, but whose validity was extended by six months by a “joining” decree until June 30. Without waiting for the outcome of the discussions on senior employment, Gabriel Attal announced in January that he wanted to “go further in the reform of unemployment insurance”.
Last week, the Prime Minister recalled three levers to tighten the rules: the duration of compensation, the affiliation condition, i.e. the time one must have worked to be compensated, and the level of this compensation. While emphasizing that “the three possibilities [étaient] open”, he had expressed his preference for a tightening of the affiliation condition.