hardening of unemployment insurance rules, pension reform … The Head of State meets in September to the social partners.
by
Emmanuel Macron has no intention of renouncing his projects that hit unions. During the television interview he granted, Thursday, July 14, the Head of State was determined on two burning files: unemployment insurance and pensions. The first, synonymous with more rigorous rules for job seekers, will be the subject of measures in a legislative text devoted to “the work reform” and developed “on the return of summer”. The other theme will be addressed “at the start of the school year”, as part of a “strategic and general discussion”, the aim being to achieve “in the summer of 2023” to “a first entry” so that people remain in “longer” activity.
Basically, there is no surprise: Mr. Macron’s statements are an extension of the “pact” he proposed during the presidential campaign. They nevertheless draw attention, because for several weeks the executive had been discreet and vague, in particular about pensions. In his declaration of general policy pronounced on July 6, Elisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister, had mentioned this project without mentioning the idea of postponing the age of rights to a pension to 65 years. An orientation which is however in the program of M. Macron.
With regard to unemployment insurance, government wishes were difficult to identify. To the question of whether to change the rules, Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor, had answered on Tuesday on Sud Radio: “We have already done so.” An allusion to the hardening of the compensation parameters put in work at the end of the previous legislature. Mr. Dussopt had specified that a reflection was underway to “extend” the existing provisions, these ceasing to be “valid” from the “end of October”. So many words that may suggest that the status quo would be maintained, at least at first.
“We will go further”
m. Macron finally decided to take action now. On unemployment insurance, “we’re going to go further,” he said on Thursday. The Head of State has not delivered a detail, but his objective, according to a source within the executive, is to make a campaign promise to make: to make the system of compensation stricter “when too many jobs are not provided “and” more generous when unemployment is high “.
The President of the Republic justified his approach by the difficulties that companies encounter to recruit labor. “There is not, today, a place in France where people do not tell me: (…)” I’m looking for people to work. “” Mr. Macron even referred to the controversial exchange as ‘He had, in September 2018, with a young person: “I cross the street and I find you [jobs]”, he had launched him. Little sentence he assumes more than ever today: “It’s a truth,” he insisted on Thursday. The tenant of the Elysée took the opportunity to confide that he had “difficulty in (…) hearing” those who say: “I will take advantage of national solidarity to reflect on my life.” “Because this national solidarity, It is those who work with it, “he added. Words that are not likely to upset the right.
You have 28.32% of this article to read. The continuation is reserved for subscribers.