Unemployment insurance: what bill voted for in National Assembly contains

The deputies voted at 303 votes for the first social reform of the second five -year term of Emmanuel Macron. Rules of compensation, abandonment of post … The text will lead to significant changes for job seekers.

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First social reform of the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron and first stage of the government’s roadmap towards full employment, the unemployment insurance bill was adopted at first reading, Tuesday, October 11, by the National Assembly, with 303 votes for, 249 against and 11 abstentions. A vote in which majority deputies – Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons – received the support of elected officials from the Les Républicains (LR) party. The support of the right -wing deputies had hardly been in doubt since the amendment they had filed for the abandonment of post had been adopted on Wednesday October 5, during the examination of the text in session. A short text of five articles presented as a technical but not devoid of a strong political scope, taking into account the changes it will generate.

extension of compensation rules

The primary objective of this bill was to allow the government to extend the unemployment compensation rules from the 2019 reform to decree until December 31, 2023. These, which were applied that from 2021 due to the crisis linked to the COVVI-19, arrived at the end on October 31. Without this decree, job seekers would therefore have found themselves without compensation at 1 er November.

modulation according to the economic situation

By adopting this bill, the deputies allow the government to take another decree, in order to change the compensation rules once again. Measure announced by Emmanuel Macron during his interview with July 14, the modulation of allowances must be implemented in early 2023. With this system, the compensation of the unemployed will evolve according to the economic situation. “When things go very well, the rules must be incentive, and when things are going less well, they must be more protective,” repeated several times since September the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt.

If the health market health indicators (unemployment rate, number of available job offers compared to the number of unemployed) and modulation parameters have not yet been arrested, Mr. Dussopt, however specified the contours. It is thus excluded to affect the amount of compensation but “we can however question the conditions of entry into the scheme – six months worked on twenty -four today – and the duration of compensation”, A -He said in the Sunday Journal, October 9. This perimeter will give the framework of consultation with the social partners who must start the week of October 17, when it was promised for mid-September. A delay in ignition which is explained in particular by reflections linked to a possible territorialization of modulation for overseas territories, where the unemployment rate can be twice that of the metropolis.

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