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In search of savings, the State wants to regain control of unemployment insurance

2024-03-06T17:47:25.270Z

Highlights: Emmanuel Macron has sought to interfere in the management of unemployment insurance. This part of the French social protection system has always been managed by unions and employers. “The responsibility of the social partners is the employees,” says Bruno Le Maire. The tenant of Bercy justifies this transfer of powers by his desire to put back into employment those who are now working at France Travail. But behind this consensual objective of fighting for full employment, there are above all financial imperatives.


DECRYPTION - Since coming to power, Emmanuel Macron has sought to interfere in the management of unemployment insurance while this part of the French social protection system has always been managed by unions and employers.


If some still had doubts, Bruno Le Maire took care of dispelling them.

“I consider that the State should regain control of unemployment insurance definitively,”

the Minister of the Economy declared on Wednesday in an interview with Le

Monde.

The idea had been mentioned for many months, but never so explicitly.

And the minister drives home the point:

“The responsibility of the social partners is the employees.

The responsibility of the State is all those who are unemployed.”

Ignoring parity, the tenant of Bercy justifies this transfer of powers from the unions and employers to the executive by his desire to put back into employment those who are now working at France Travail.

A project which, according to him, necessarily involves a further tightening of compensation rules.

But behind this consensual objective of fighting for full employment, there are above all financial imperatives.

It's no longer a secret, the State is desperately looking...

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Source: lefigaro

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