2023-12-10 19:20:26
Through this measure, he hopes to boost the employment of seniors. The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt declared this Sunday that he wanted to raise by two years the age of access to longer compensation for older unemployed people.
The maximum duration of compensation for the unemployed through unemployment insurance is currently 18 months up to the age of 52, 22.5 months for those aged 53-54 and 27 months for those aged 55 and over.
“We would like this increase in the duration of employment of senior job seekers to be shifted by two years, from 55 to 57 years, to be consistent with what we have done on the retirement age and because that we know that one of the challenges for full employment in France is the employment of seniors,” said Olivier Dussopt during the program “Political Questions” (France Inter, France Télévisions and Le Monde).
The main measure of the pension reform, implemented in 2023, is the increase in the legal retirement age by two years, to 64 years.
Against the reduction in the duration of compensation
At the end of November, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire considered that longer compensation for those over 55 was a way of “retiring those over 55 early”. He said he wanted to lower the duration of their compensation compared to that of other unemployed people, from 27 to 18 months.
For Olivier Dussopt, “the question is not so much the duration (of compensation) as ensuring that we do not have systems” which encourage “taking seniors out of the job market”. He recalled that the employment rate of seniors was much lower in France than the European average.
A two-year increase in the age limits must “be accompanied by a training effort”, specified the Minister of Labor.
Defense of conventional termination
He also defended the conventional termination, a system which again should not be used to “bring seniors out of the labor market earlier.”
“The conventional termination is a tool for fluidity, there are 500,000 of them per year,” he argued. “Year after year, the share of conventional terminations in the reasons for ending a permanent contract remains stable, from 11% to 12%,” he argued.
“We want to find the means” so that “the conventional termination is not used as a tool for seniors to exit the labor market, but that it remains a tool of fluidity, freedom” and reciprocal agreement between the employee and his employer, detailed the minister.
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