The government will soon unveil the terms of its unemployment insurance reform. The rules will tighten and according to a study by Unedic, there will be many losers, particularly if the duration of affiliation was increased to twelve months, compared to six today.
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Unedic, the organization which manages unemployment insurance, looked at the effects of the future government reform in an internal document, revealed on Saturday May 18 by The world and of which AFP obtained a copy. What will happen if the government asks you to work more to qualify for unemployment benefits? Who will be affected?
Today, you must have worked six months out of 24 months to receive compensation. But if we add one month of work, so if it takes seven months of work, 11% of beneficiaries will be penalized. According to Unedic, if it is 12 months in the last 24 months, almost a third (31%) of those registered with France Travail will lose out, but the scheme will make 2.3 billion euros in savings per year. . It is likely that the executive will put the cursor between the two, that it will request eight or nine months of work over the last 24 months to trigger compensation.
The government also wants to shorten the reference period. This is another option, which Unedic also studied, this means that it would no longer take six months of work over the last 24 months, but six months of work over the last 18 months, which is more difficult. to reach. Here too, more than a third of the unemployed would be impacted and savings for the system would reach 7.5 billion euros per year. In any case, if the government touches on how to enter the unemployment system, Unedic shows that it is young people, and those who are on fixed-term or temporary contracts who will be the first targeted.
There is also talk of reducing the duration of compensation. In this case, this means that the job seeker will be compensated for a shorter period of time. Today, for those under 53, it is up to 18 months. But the executive could lower this period to 12 months, to be in line with the European average and make six billion euros in savings per year. There, this would especially penalize those who have years of work behind them, who have been made redundant or who have terminated their contract after a conventional termination.
It is possible that the government will do a combination: toughen entry into the system, while reducing the time it takes to pay the allowance. One of the objectives of its reform is to cut spending.