The entry into force of the controversial reform of unemployment insurance will be linked to the improvement of the labor market based on indicators yet to be specified, which de facto postpones it well beyond April 1, they said. indicated several union and employer officials Monday after their meetings with the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne.
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The government does not want to give up on its reform but has understood that this is not the time.
He tells us that the implementation will not be on April 1, that's for sure, but that we have to find the indicators to program it when things get better,
”summed up Denis Gravouil for the CGT, one of the eight. trade unions and employers' organizations received throughout the day at the ministry.
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The idea is to define the terms of entry into force to stop with postponements from three months to three months.
There is still quite a technical work to be done on the indicators to be retained: number of job seekers, vacant job offers, job creation, etc.
», Explained Eric Chevée (CPME).
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Watch out for false good ideas.
It will be the puzzle to find the right criteria, the unemployment rate being for example very heterogeneous according to the regions
”, warned Marylise Léon (CFDT).
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In the mind of the Minister, these indicators do not yet seem well defined,
" said Michel Beaugas (FO).
This work will continue and should be presented at a multilateral meeting around mid-February.
Decided in July 2019 by the Philippe government after the failure of a social negotiation very supervised by the executive, the reform then aimed to achieve savings of 1 to 1.3 billion per year, in particular by tightening the compensation rules and taxing the abusive use of short contracts.
The brutality of the crisis forced the government to suspend its application this summer and to propose in the fall adjustments on the four main parameters: passage from 4 to 6 months of membership to open rights, method of calculating the compensation, degression of the allowance and “
bonus-malus
” on company contributions.