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Unemployment insurance: Parliament adopts the bill paving the way for modulation

2022-11-17T12:24:06.146Z


Parliament definitively adopted this Thursday the bill paving the way for a modulation of unemployment insurance according to the economic situation,


The rules concerning unemployment insurance are about to change.

The senators ratified this Thursday noon, by a final vote, a compromise found with the deputies on the government bill.

This one did not have to resort to the constitutional weapon of 49.3, thanks to an agreement reached with the right.

The text of the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt initially plans to extend the current rules of unemployment insurance, resulting from a disputed reform of the first five-year Macron.

A decree to this effect was taken in advance at the end of October.

It also triggers the possibility, by decree, of modulating certain rules so that it is "stricter when too many jobs are unfilled, more generous when unemployment is high", according to Emmanuel Macron's campaign promise.

Arbitrations announced on November 21

Consultation is underway with the social partners, and the government will announce "the arbitrations adopted" on November 21, for an application of the modulation at the start of 2023. "We are working on a modulation of the maximum duration of compensation", currently 24 to 36 months depending on age, Olivier Dussopt told deputies on Tuesday.

Thus, “we do not plan to modify the conditions of affiliation to the unemployment insurance system”.

It takes six months of work over a reference period of 24 months to be eligible.

The executive insists that there is urgency in the face of the recruitment difficulties of companies, and makes this reform a first stone of its strategy to achieve full employment in 2027, i.e. an unemployment rate of around 5% against 7, 4% currently.

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Deputies and senators reached a compromise on this text of the law in a joint committee last week, but at the cost of a hardening imposed by the LR senators, to which the minister was initially opposed.

It was added that the refusal twice in one year of a CDI after a CDD or an interim contract on the same post, the same place and with the same remuneration, will lead to the loss of unemployment compensation.

It will be up to the employer (or both employers) to inform Pôle emploi, which poses a “technical difficulty” so that it is not a “gas plant”, according to Olivier Dussopt.

"The government did not want it, but we did not bend," said the rapporteur for the text in the Senate Frédérique Puissat (LR).

His counterpart in the Assembly Marc Ferracci (Renaissance) finds the measure "little operational and legally fragile", and sees in it "a somewhat ideological approach, even if there is a real subject on the refusal of CDI".

The left criticizes a "right-wing reform"

Another provision, added by amendments from the presidential majority and LR deputies, is still debated: “abandonment of post” will now be equated with a resignation, to limit access to unemployment insurance.

Right-wing elected officials “have been force of proposal, both in the Assembly and in the Senate”, welcomes the deputy LR Stéphane Viry, who however believes that the bill “does not exhaust” the reforms to be carried out.

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In unison with the unions, the left criticizes "a right-wing reform" whose objective would be to "lower unemployment benefits".

Before the final vote Tuesday in the Assembly, acquired by 210 votes against 140, the Insoumis defended in vain a last motion to reject this text bearing, according to them, "a disposable vision of employees".

The Socialists have announced a referral to the Constitutional Council.

RN deputies also voted against the bill, by which "punishment and guilt are the order of the day", according to them.

The bill also records the opening of a consultation on the governance of unemployment insurance.

Another component programs a “drastic simplification” of the validation of acquired experience (VAE), according to Minister Delegate Carole Grandjean.

Source: leparis

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