On BFMTV, the Minister of Labor insisted on the usefulness of “consultation” with the social partners to “improve the effectiveness of unemployment insurance in terms of encouraging the resumption” of employment.
«When things are going well, we tighten the rules and when things are going badly, we relax them.“. The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt judges “necessary to go further” with regard to the reform of unemployment insurance and outlines its avenues of work, in an interview with the Parisian posted Tuesday, July 26. While the executive has set itself the objective of achieving full employment by 2027, i.e. an unemployment rate of around 5% against 7.3% currently, Olivier Dussopt ensures that this objective is “possiblethanks to the RSA and unemployment insurance reforms.
«There is an urgency: that the unemployment insurance reform, decided in 2019 and implemented in 2021 due to the Covid, sees its rules extended. They expire on November 1, 2022asks the minister. This will go through a text of law presented at the start of the school year, which will be the first on the menu of Parliament on the return from the summer break from the beginning of October. The minister explains that the government intends to extend these controversial rules “to enable this reform to continue to produce its positive effects and to reflect on the next stage». «It is necessary to go further“, he continues. “Our compensation rules must take into account the situation of the labor market, as does, for example, Canada“, he explains, taking up a campaign commitment from Emmanuel Macron.
«We will address this subject in the fall.»
«Once we have proposed extending these measures to Parliament, we will consult with all the trade unions and professional organizations to improve the effectiveness of unemployment insurance in terms of encouraging recovery“, adds Olivier Dussopt a few hours later, on BFM TV. «Tracks can be opened, on the duration of compensation and its decreasing nature. These parameters will be discussed as part of the consultation“, he pointed out earlier. Regarding the evaluation of the transition to “a good situation” or a “degraded situation“, he judged that he “must be objective“. It will pass”either by criteria, such as a number of consecutive quarters with an improvement in employment, or by a committee that gives us an opinion“, the terms and conditions being “not stopped».
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Asked about the transformation of Pôle emploi into France Travail, the minister refutes a cosmetic name change and affirms, without going into details, that this will lead to “simplify and better coordinate the actors (local authorities, private actors, etc.)“. As for the RSA, which the president said he wanted to allocate on the condition of performing 15 or 20 hours of a “effective activity which allows the insertion», Olivier Dussopt indicates that «the new terms and conditions will be put in place as soon as possible“. The objective is, for the 1.950 million RSA recipients “to restore their chances of working, through training, integration and support“, specifies the Minister of Labor.
On pensions, he finally indicates that consultation “will begin after the meeting of the National Refoundation Council in September“, ensuring maintain”the summer of 2023 as the horizon for the entry into force of the first effects of the reform».
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