The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, spoke of several avenues in order to keep workers in activity in sixty years.
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While deputies are preparing to vote a bill that hardens the unemployment insurance rules, the government is considering new measures on the functioning of the regime. In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) of October 9, the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, evokes several avenues whose aim is to keep workers in activity in sixty years. One of the hypotheses under study could consist in reducing the duration of compensation for private seniors, which, at present, is elongated.
m. Dussopt made these words just before the opening of the first “consultation cycle” on the pension reform. From Tuesday, the Ministry of Labor receives union representatives and employers to work on “the employment of seniors and the prevention of professional wear”. A major issue in France, since the share of 60-64 year olds with a position is low: 32.7 % in 2019, against 70 % in Sweden and 61.8 % in Germany.
“Our bad results are explained by several causes,” said Dussopt to the JDD. The Minister notably quotes “devices which can be perceived as encouragement, for employers, to separate from seniors”. This is the case, “for example”, of the maximum period of unemployment compensation, which, from 55 years, goes to thirty-six months, against thirty months for people 53 and 54 years old, and twenty Four months for the others. “If it is legitimate to have specific rules, this perspective can be seen as a way of load shedding,” he observes. Implicitly, Mr. Dussopt thus suggests that it could be relevant to end the derogatory system from which the oldest job seekers benefit. 2> “The method is not going”
Other options are highlighted, in particular the possibility, for “a senior who accepts a less well paid job, to keep part of his unemployment benefits in order to compensate for the shortfall” compared to his previous activity. The Minister mentions another incentive, this time intended for the bosses: the “exemptions from social contributions” for the hiring of women and men at the end of their careers.
In Mr. Dussopt’s office, it is said that discussions on the compensation for people who are at least 55 years old “are, a priori, not provided for as part of the unemployment insurance bill”. This text, which notably sets more strict rules for employees abandoning their post, must be adopted, Tuesday, October 11, at first reading in the National Assembly.
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