The government knew very well that the start of the school year would be hot with the presentation of particularly sensitive texts.
Everything is going absolutely as planned so far.
All the national unions and the main youth associations denounce in unison in a press release on Friday the will of the executive to reform unemployment insurance by "reducing (the) rights to compensation" of the unemployed, which is "unfair" and "ineffective".
“Targeting unemployment rights is totally ineffective.
Stigmatizing job seekers once again by reducing their rights to compensation is deeply unfair", write the trade union centers (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFTC, CFE-CGC, FSU, Solidaires and Unsa) and five student organizations and high school students (Unef, Fidl, Mnl, Vl, Fage).
"This risks accentuating the precariousness of young people in particular, while only the unemployment rate for the latter has increased by 1.3 points this quarter", they continue.
"Engage in a socially just ecological transition"
For them, if "employers are struggling to recruit today, it is primarily because they cannot find the qualifications and skills they are looking for", and because "the working or employment conditions offered (...) pose a problem: salaries that are too low, atypical or unpredictable working hours, poor working conditions, very short contracts, difficulties linked to the mode of transport...”.
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#AssuranceChômage Tightening the compensation rules for job seekers is not the answer to the recruitment problem!
It is inefficient and unfair!
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– CFDT (@CFDT) September 9, 2022
The signatories “reaffirm their opposition to the modification of the rules of compensation for job seekers according to the economic situation (in particular countercyclicality)”.
They underline “the need to initiate a socially just ecological transition”, after a summer which “brought violently to light the consequences of climate change”.
A new meeting scheduled for October 3
This text follows an inter-union meeting held at the CFDT headquarters on Monday.
The same signatories less the Fage had already published on July 12 a common text to defend the increase in wages, “priority subject”.
The 13 organizations have planned to meet again on October 3 at the headquarters of Unsa.
The government on Wednesday kicked off a new reform of unemployment insurance aimed at responding to recruitment difficulties by varying the conditions of compensation for the unemployed according to the economic situation.
The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, and the Minister Delegate for Vocational Training, Carole Grandjean, receive the social partners on Monday to present their roadmap.
