The government will set new compensation rules for job seekers from 1er July, taking note of the ” disagreement “ between the social partners, according to a press release from the Ministry of Labor published Monday April 22. The executive will take “a deficiency decree” which will “with the aim of contributing to the achievement of full employment and promoting the rapid return to employment of unemployed people receiving compensation”. As in 2019, employers and unions are once again losing control over the definition of these rules to the benefit of the executive.
The ministry recalls that “the social partners did not manage to find an agreement in the negotiation relating to the life at work pact, which concerned the employment of seniors, professional retraining and the universal time savings account [CETU] » engaged since December.
He adds that “the outcome of this negotiation conditioned the entry into force” of the agreement on unemployment insurance of November 2023, “in order to make it compatible with the summer 2023 framework document” which provided for savings on compensation for senior jobseekers.
“Go further in unemployment insurance reform”
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 decree of “join” until June 30. Without waiting for the outcome of the discussions on the employment of seniors, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced in January that he wanted “go further in the reform of unemployment insurance”.
Last week, he recalled three levers to tighten the rules: the duration of compensation, the affiliation condition, i.e. the time you must have worked to be compensated, and the level of this compensation. While emphasizing that “the three possibilities [étaient] open »he expressed his preference for a tightening of the affiliation condition.