Unemployment benefits low when there is work to be filled, high when there is less?
The Senate with a right-wing majority adopted this Tuesday evening in first reading the bill paving the way for a possible modulation of unemployment insurance according to the economic situation, after having hardened it with a measure penalizing the repeated refusals of CDI to the from a fixed-term contract.
Scheduled over three days, the examination of this text carried by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt was finally completed in a single day.
Deputies and senators will now try to agree on a common version in a joint committee.
This text initially provides for extending the current unemployment insurance rules, resulting from a disputed reform of the first Macron five-year term and which expire on November 1.
It also triggers the possibility, by decree, of modulating unemployment insurance according to the job market, Emmanuel Macron's campaign promise.
The module mechanism subject to consultation
The current system "remains built to respond to a concept of mass unemployment, without being a sufficient incentive to return to employment", declared the minister, stressing that "60% of companies are having difficulty recruiting".
This modulation mechanism is currently the subject of consultation between the government and the social partners which “should last 6 to 8 weeks to be completed by the end of the year”, specified Olivier Dussopt.
The rapporteurs Frédérique Puissat (LR) and Olivier Henno (centrist) have enshrined the principle of modulation in full in the law, with the support of the minister.
The Minister, on the other hand, was unfavorable to another measure introduced in committee, which provides that a jobseeker who has refused three CDI proposals at the end of a CDD cannot be entitled to unemployment insurance. .
LR senators, including their leader Bruno Retailleau, failed to toughen this provision in the hemicycle: an amendment providing for the deprivation of compensation on first refusal was rejected with extreme accuracy.
As for the provision equating “abandonment of post” with a resignation, introduced in the Assembly by amendments from the presidential majority and the LRs, the senators specified the applicable procedure in order to “secure” it.
