Gabriel Attal’s announcements “confirm the government’s deep contempt for social actors”, denounces Sophie Binet

“The government’s obsession with the unemployed is now turning into obsessive disorder“, criticizes Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, while Gabriel Attal announced, Wednesday March 27 on TF1, “unemployment insurance reform this year“One of the government’s options is to reduce the “compensation duration of several months“.

The Prime Minister said he wanted a new reform “global“unemployment insurance which would reduce the duration of compensation for the unemployed, at a time when social spending is in the executive’s sights to fill the deficit which slipped last year. In the third quarter of 2023, out of 6, 1 million job seekers registered with France Travail (all categories combined), only 2.6 million were compensated (42.6%), according to Unédic data. The average amount of the net monthly allowance is 1,033 euros.

“Authoritarian drift of power”

The Prime Minister asked his Minister of Labor Catherine Vautrin “to prepare for new negotiations” with the social partners on unemployment insurance, putting forward among the possibilities a possible reduction in the duration of compensation from 18 to 12 months maximum.

Gabriel Attal’s announcements “confirm the government’s deep contempt for social actors“, she denounces. It’s a “authoritarian drift of power.”