Unemployment insurance benefits will be increased by 1.9% on April 1, an exceptional boost due to inflation, several unions announced on Friday.
The decision was taken during a Unédic board meeting.
"
This follows a collective initiative of the trade unions which, faced with galloping inflation and the decline in the purchasing power of job seekers, requested and obtained this reassessment", welcomed Force Ouvrière in a press release
. .
The union hailed “
a first
” because until then, only one revaluation took place per year on July 1.
The CGT, however, deplored that the employers have "
not conceded more than a revaluation of 1.9% in total disconnection with the precariousness of the unemployed but, also, with the increases in social minima and the Smic
".
The union abstained, without preventing the adoption of this revaluation for all that.
