Prime Minister Gabriel Attal wants to reduce the duration of unemployment insurance. Attal has asked his Minister of Labor Catherine Vautrin to prepare new negotiations.
“My objective is not to attack a particular individual or the unemployed, it is to move a system to further encourage people to return to work,” said the Prime Minister. The minimum time one must have worked to benefit from unemployment - currently six months in the last two years - and the “unemployment benefit level” has “less (his) preference”