Three weeks after having summoned them to the Élysée Palace and having launched a series of consultations in the process, Emmanuel Macron will unveil, this Wednesday afternoon, to employer and union organizations the arbitrations he intends to take on a set of related subjects to work. The social partners are in fact expecting concrete announcements from the Head of State on the new formula for partial unemployment, the revision of the current unemployment insurance rules, vocational training, employment for young people and the adaptation to the crisis of the rules on posted work by employees. Five important subjects in this period of crisis on an unprecedented scale which have been the subject of multiple meetings since June 8 with Muriel Pénicaud at the Ministry of Labor.
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On Wednesday, at the end of this new interview, the social partners hope in particular to be fixed on the new reduced activity mechanism for job retention (Weapon) which should come into force for companies still affected by the crisis or on new partial unemployment rules in place of those, exceptional, implemented since the beginning of March. There are also great expectations about the abandonment of the Macron unemployment insurance reform, which was imposed on everyone last fall and most of whose measures were simply suspended. A hiring bonus for young people could also be announced - or failing this, an exemption from social security contributions - to encourage employers to recruit workers under the age of 25.
There is an urgent need to act: in the space of two months, the number of job seekers in category A at Pôle emploi has jumped by more than a million people. Never seen. And it's a safe bet that the figures for May, released Thursday noon, by the statistics directorate of the Ministry of Labor, are just as catastrophic. If not more. The Pôle Emploi agencies, which will reopen to the public in July, without prior appointment with an advisor, will have a lot to do ...