Tribune. The reform of unemployment insurance, postponed several times by the government itself because it worsened the economic and social consequences of the health crisis and rebutted again by the Council of State on June 22 after a first censorship in the fall 2020, could not enter into force on 1er July as initially planned by the government.
However, the government is bracing itself on its text despite the evidence of its social incongruity and its legal weakness and envisages nothing more than a postponement until the fall. Is the crisis over? Not far from here. But the end of “whatever the cost” obviously supposes that it costs the most precarious among us first and foremost. Because this reform will do considerable damage. ” A massacre “, had summarized Laurent Berger at the time of the first version of this reform, before the health crisis.
Recall that, according to Unédic projections, nearly 1.15 million new job seekers (out of an estimated 2.8 million) will experience a delay in their compensation or a decrease in it during the twelve first months of existence of this reform. Based on the impact study carried out by Unédic, the Socialist Party undertook to quantify the territorial impact of the reform, by projecting the results of Unédic in each of the metropolitan and overseas departments. .
Injustice of this reform
The result confirms the injustice of the reform, which worsens territorial disparities and will hit more severely the departments already affected by a degraded economic and social environment or the landlocked territories in which the barrier to mobility is also often a barrier to employment. . It is therefore the main characteristic of this reform to widen existing inequalities, to strike the most vulnerable, to add precariousness to precariousness.
Because, by reforming the method of calculating the daily reference wage (SJR), which serves as the basis for calculating the compensation paid by Pôle emploi to job seekers, the government has chosen to penalize “permittents”, in other words, those who experience bumpy trajectories which regularly alternate periods of employment and unemployment. Thus, for an equal working time, a job seeker who has experienced interruptions in his career will lose up to 41% of his compensation!
This mainly concerns young people, whose access to stable employment is made even more difficult by the crisis. Thus, 345,000 new job seekers under the age of 25 will suffer the consequences of this reform, just for the first year!
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