The last stage of the emblematic five-year reform on unemployment rules takes place, after many upheavals.
The united unions - for once - failed to bring it down.
The Council of State definitively closed the door to their request considering that there was no “sufficiently salient element” which would justify canceling the contested provisions because they would create new inequalities.
The hardening of the rules for calculating unemployment benefit will take place.
After the first measures applied since October 1, which modify the method of calculating compensation, two other components which crystallized anger come into force on December 1 to perfect this tightening of the screws: the duration of membership necessary to open or reload a right and degression of allowances for the highest salaries.
The degression on high wages also comes into effect
Concretely, it will be necessary to have worked six months and no longer four to benefit from unemployment benefit.
Main losers: precarious workers and young people.
According to an impact study by Unédic (unemployment insurance fund), published in April, this change to six months will lead, during the first year of application, to delay the opening of rights to 475,000 people.
The executives, too, will lose.
The degression from the seventh month of compensation and no longer from the ninth month of compensation will also have serious consequences.
“Between March and June 2022, 35,000 people would see their allowance decrease.
In the second half of 2022, 25,000 people would also be affected for the first time, ”wrote Unédic experts.
In total, according to the calculations of experts, the whole reform will negatively affect 1.7 million people.
1.9 billion euros in savings generated in 2022
But according to Unédic, the comprehensive reform of unemployment insurance should generate savings of around 1.9 billion in 2022, then 2.2 billion in 2023 for public funds.
"At a time when economic uncertainties start to hover again with the new variant, precarious people, young people and executives are penalized, in particular those over 50 who will no longer find work in their entirety, mumbled Michel Beaugas, in charge of these questions to Force Ouvrière.
This reform is bad.
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At the same time, Pôle emploi announced a strengthening of the monitoring of the unemployed in order to verify that they are doing everything possible to find work.
250,000 checks should be carried out by the end of April.
