2024-01-30 18:22:00
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 4:02 p.m., Updated yesterday at 7:22 p.m.
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Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he no longer wanted this allowance which allows one to contribute to retirement “without working”.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Tuesday the removal of the specific solidarity allowance (ASS) for unemployed people at the end of their rights and will request a review of the unemployment insurance rules if its financial trajectory “of life”. L’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 “fight 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 ministries (Drees). More generally, “we must go further in reforming unemployment insurance”indicated Gabriel Attal, recalling that a negotiation was launched between social partners “in favor of the employment of seniors, the prevention of professional attrition and retraining”. The approval by the executive of a new unemployment insurance agreement, signed in November by employers and certain trade union organizations, also depends on the outcome of this negotiation at the end of March.
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“Full employment objective”
Gabriel Attal reiterated the“full employment objective” of the government. “We must increasingly encourage people to 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 senior employment generates at least 440 million euros in savings over the period 2024-2027, thanks in particular to raising the age thresholds from which older unemployed people are entitled to unemployment benefits. longer compensation.
If the financial trajectory “of life”the head of government will not hesitate “as the law allows, to ask the social partners to put the work back into operation, on the basis of a new framework letter”. The Prime Minister also announced that the government will initiate “after the summer a new stage of labor law reform” allowing VSEs and SMEs to “negotiate certain rules directly, company by company”.
Unions worried
“We understood that the new keyword of the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic was rearmament. To hear them, we have the impression that this rearmament is against the world of work”commented to AFP the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet.
“When we have already not been a fan of season 1, there is little chance that season 2 (of the labor market reform announced by Emmanuel Macron, Editor’s note) will be good”quipped the leader of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier. “I’m a little afraid that we are in the process of disarming employees, civil servants and the unemployed”he insisted.
For François Hommeril (CFE-CGC), “it’s the world upside down”: “2024 promises to be a fairly difficult year (…) and what the Prime Minister is telling us is that he doesn’t care about the difficulty and suffering of people who are unemployed. They are the ones who will pay because the State wants to recover 10, 12 or 15 billion euros”.
Concerning the desire displayed by the Prime Minister to fight against low wages for “discard France”Cyril Chabanier welcomed a speech “positive” even though he said he regretted that there was no “measures that we could have hoped for” such as“a boost to the minimum wage”.
“The elements of demicardization do not go any further for the moment”also regretted the number 2 of the CFDT, Yvan Ricordeau.
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