Modulable The government has reached an agreement on the modulation of unemployment insurance with the right
The LR majority in the Senate validated the text after pushing for its hardening in the joint committee. — NICOLAS MESSYASZ/SIPA
The file promised to be hypersensitive, but the government did not have to deal with it in the end. draw the constitutional weapon of 49.3. The senators endorsed, by a final vote, a compromise found between the parties. with the deputies on the modulation of unemployment insurance according to the economic situation. If the text ruffles the left, the extreme right and the unions, it finally passed. trouble-free thanks to; an agreement between the majority presidential and the right.
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt’s bill initially plans to extend the current rules of unemployment insurance, resulting from a disputed reform of Macron’s first five-year term. A decree has been taken in this sense by anticipation at the end of October. It also triggers the possibility, by decree, of modulating certain rules of unemployment insurance so that it is “stricter when too many jobs are not filled, more embarrassed; reuse when unemployment is high,” according to Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise.
The Senate has imposed a his text
Consultation is underway with the social partners, and the government will make known “the arbitrations adopted” November 21, for an application of modulation at the beginning of 2023. “We are working on a modulation of the maximum duration of compensation,” 36 months according to age, indicated Tuesday Olivier Dussopt to the deputies.
Thus “we do not plan to modify the conditions of affiliation to the unemployment insurance system”. It takes six months of work over a reference period of 24 months to be eligible. The compromise found between deputies and senators was all the same at the cost of an imposed hardening; by senators It was added that the refusal to twice in one year of a CDI after a CDD or an interim contract on the same position, the same place and with the same remuneration, will lead to the loss of unemployment compensation.
“The government didn’t want it, but we didn’t fold,” the rapporteur of the text in the Senate Frédéréde;rique Puissat (LR). Its counterpart at; the Assembly Marc Ferracci (Renaissance) finds the measure “not very operational and legally fragile”, and sees in it “a somewhat ideological approach, even s’ there is a real subject on the refusal of CDI”. Those elected on the right “have been strength of proposal, both at the Assembly and the Senate,” LR Stéphane Viry, who nevertheless believes that the bill “doesn’not exhaust” the reforms to conduct.
Another provision, added by majority amendments; presidential and LR deputies, is still debated: “the abandonment of post” will henceforth be assimilated to a resignation, to limit access to unemployment insurance. Quit at; forget that this is sometimes the last resort for an employee; to express their discomfort at work.