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This text provides for a transformation of the conditions of access to unemployment benefit, with a system that would evolve according to the economic context. It will concern new registrants from 2023, i.e. from the entry into force of the reform. What is it exactly? Europe 1 takes stock.
The unemployment indicator is particularly scrutinized today. And for good reason ! It is this Tuesday that the deputies should adopt the reform of unemployment insurance before the text arrives in the Senate on Thursday. This text provides for a transformation of the conditions of access to unemployment benefit. The idea is that the unemployment compensation system evolves according to the economic context. In other words, when the economy is doing well and there are vacancies, the conditions for unemployment compensation are tightened. And when the situation deteriorates, we soften them.
Shorter compensation periods
“If the economic situation is good, the rules will be more incentive to return to employment. And if the economic situation is less good, they will be more protective of job seekers”, explains Marc Ferracci, vice-president of the Renaissance group at the National Assembly and rapporteur of the bill on unemployment insurance. “The idea here is to respond to the labor shortages that many companies are experiencing by giving more incentives to take up jobs which, when they remain vacant, penalize the daily life of the French.”
This will therefore concern new unemployment insurance registrants in 2023, as soon as the reform comes into force. The compensation periods could then be shorter and the eligibility periods longer. There would therefore be a greater requirement of the number of months worked to open up a right to unemployment insurance. But all these modalities are still under discussion between the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt and the social partners. The rules could then tighten as of next year because the current “conjecture” is rather good, with an unemployment rate which reached 7.3% in October, against 9.4% in 2017. In any case, this model has has already been adopted in Canada where it has shown that a reduction in the duration of benefits allows a quicker return to work.