The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, will bring together the social partners on March 2 on the controversial reform of unemployment insurance, in order to discuss "
the exit points
" of the consultation initiated in the autumn, according to a letter sent on Monday. to the social partners.
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The heads of the main trade unions and employers' organizations are invited at 9 am on March 2 for a multilateral videoconference meeting intended to “
discuss the exit points from the consultation on the reform of unemployment insurance, which began in September 2020
”, indicates the mail consulted by AFP.
Decided in July 2019 by the Philippe government after the failure of a social negotiation closely supervised by the executive, the reform then aimed to achieve savings of 1 to 1.3 billion per year, in particular by tightening the rules of compensation and taxing the abusive use of short contracts, all in a then dynamic labor market.
Several arrangements
Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the government suspended its application and Elisabeth Borne opened a consultation in the fall of 2020, saying she was ready to discuss the “
parameters
” of the reform without abandoning its spirit.
She insists that her two objectives remain "
relevant
": "to
fight against the precariousness linked to the excessive use of short contracts, via the bonus-malus system, and to strengthen equity in the calculation of unemployment benefits
".
To adapt to the context, the Ministry of Labor has proposed several adjustments to the four main parameters of the reform: length of affiliation to open up rights, method of calculating compensation, degression of the allowance and “
bonus- malus
”on companies' social contributions.
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At the end of January, after a series of bilateral meetings, the ministry indicated that it wanted to link certain parameters to a "
return to good fortune
".
This must concern the rules on eligibility for unemployment insurance and on the degression of the allowance, which may therefore change according to indicators linked to the state of the labor market.
But the reform still meets the frank opposition of the unions who unanimously denounce "
a decrease in the rights of the unemployed
", while the employers continue to contest the bonus-malus.
