Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Tuesday the abolition of the specific solidarity allowance (ASS) for unemployed people at the end of their rights and will request a review of the rules of unemployment insurance if its financial trajectory “deviates”.
The ASS allows, without working, to validate quarters while we consider that retirement must be the fruit of work, argued the head of government in his general policy declaration, highlighting his desire to combat inactivity traps. .
So we will propose the switch to the solidarity allowance specific to the RSA and the elimination of this allowance, continued the Prime Minister. At the end of 2019, 351,000 people received the specific solidarity allowance (ASS), according to the statistical department of social ministers (Drees).
Go further in unemployment insurance reform
More generally, we must go further in the reform of unemployment insurance, indicated Gabriel Attal, recalling that a negotiation was launched between social partners in favor of the employment of seniors, the prevention of usury career paths and retraining.
The outcome of this negotiation at the end of March also depends on the approval by the executive of a new unemployment insurance agreement, signed in November by employers and certain trade union organizations.
Gabriel Attal laughed at the government’s full employment objective. We must increasingly encourage the return to work, and I will be extremely attentive to the evolution of the financial trajectory of unemployment insurance, he warned.
The government demands that the agreement on the employment of seniors generate at least 440 million euros in savings over the period 2024-2027, thanks in particular to raising the age limits from which older unemployed people are entitled to longer compensation. .
New stage of labor law reform
If the financial trajectory deviates, the head of government will not hesitate, as the law allows, to ask the social partners to put the work back on track, on the basis of a new framework letter. The Prime Minister also announced that after the summer the government will initiate a new stage of labor law reform allowing VSEs and SMEs to negotiate certain rules directly, company by company.
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