2023-11-27 19:44:52
A setback on the road to the new unemployment insurance agreement. The government announced Monday, November 27 that it was not going to approve ” as is “ the agreement signed by the social partners on November 10, a text which will decide the next rules on unemployment insurance between 2024 and 2027.
Matignon wishes to wait for the conclusion of negotiations on the employment of seniors, which should begin in the coming weeks between the social partners, to ensure that measures allowing savings made possible by the pension reform will be there. registered. They have until March 15, 2024 to reach an agreement. In the meantime, a joining decree will be issued to maintain the current unemployment insurance regulations until June 2024, at most.
Framework letter respected
The Prime Minister’s office recognized, Monday, November 27, that the agreement reached by employers and unions – without the CGT or the CFE-CGC – respected the framework letter sent to the social partners.
However, the question relating to compensation for seniors, which was to be addressed, was postponed at the request of the social partners in order to be debated during negotiations on the employment of seniors.
The social partners still included the estimated amount of savings to be made over the period 2024-2027 – 440 million euros – without specifying the measures to achieve them. They will normally be part of the subjects debated in the coming weeks between unions and employers. In the event of a national inter-professional agreement (ANI), the parties will sign an amendment to their draft unemployment insurance agreement.
Shift or eliminate longer compensation periods for seniors
To achieve these savings requested by the government, which will notably make it possible to finance the France Travail reform, the government had notably suggested shifting the age limits opening up to longer durations of compensation by two years in order to “agree” with the decline in legal retirement from 62 to 64 years.
At the France Info microphone on Thursday November 23, Bruno Le Maire went even further. The Minister of the Economy said he was in favor of aligning the duration of compensation for people over 55 with that of younger job seekers, removing any extension system. Seniors would receive unemployment for a maximum of eighteen months and not twenty-seven, which, according to him, would prevent them from being unemployed. « retire early ».
Unions refuse to toughen the conditions of access to unemployment
For many union representatives, the suspension of the new agreement was predictable. But many still see a lack of confidence in social dialogue and in the outcome of a future national inter-professional agreement between unions and employers.
It remains to be seen whether the two parties will manage to agree, with companies in favor of a reduction in social charges and unions opposed to a shorter duration of unemployment compensation…
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