severe penalties for refusing a CDI upon leaving a CDD

This Tuesday evening, October 25, after a few hours of examination, the Senate adopted at first reading the law Project “laying down emergency measures relating to the functioning of the labor market with a view to full employment”, reported The echoes. The adoption of this text initially leads to the extension of the current unemployment insurance rules, which date from a reform of Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term and which expire on November 1. This allows, secondly, the modulation of unemployment benefits according to specific labor market situations.

The senators thus voted for an amendment providing thata job seeker who has refused three CDI proposals at the end of a CDD can no longer benefit from unemployment benefit. If this measure, proposed by Les Républicains, has visibly convinced the Senate, mainly on the right, the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, is largely opposed to it. “There is no reason to sanction an employee who has gone to the end of his commitment. The situation is very different from that of abandonment of post, which is a unilateral decision”, he said, before recalling that an employer can refuse to pay the precariousness bonus. On the left side, the amendment also aroused strong reactions. “We we just have to abolish the unemployment benefit”effectively lambasted Monique Lubin (PS), denouncing “a shallot race”.

Unemployment rights abolished

In addition to jobseekers who have refused three CDI proposals at the end of a CDD, will also be excluded from the right to unemployment insurance. people who have refused a permanent contract offered for the position they occupy temporarily. Alongside this, the senators clarified the applicable procedure regarding the provision equating “abandonment of post” to a resignation, recently introduced in the Assembly by the presidential majority and Les Républicains. They also rectified the bonus-malus parameters, with the aim of limiting short contracts.