“It is not the job of the Minister of the Economy” to shorten the duration of unemployment compensation for those over 55, assures the national secretary of the CFDT

“This is not the job of the Minister of the Economy“, to shorten the duration of unemployment compensation for those over 55, assured Thursday, November 23 on franceinfo Olivier Guivarch, national secretary of the CFDT. On franceinfo, Bruno Le Maire reaffirmed his desire to align the duration of unemployment compensation for more than 55 years on that of others.

“We live in the real world, we take into account the numbers“, explains the trade unionist, who defends the retention of a longer duration of compensation for those over 55. To justify himself, he therefore puts forward the employment rate of seniors which is “very bad in France“.

“They experience 805 days of unemployment on average, compared to 370 days for all ages combined.“, underlines Olivier Guivarch, which means that”we have one in six seniors who are neither employed nor retired.“Hence the need, according to him, to maintain compensation for a period of 27 months, compared to 18 months.

“They want to work, they don’t want to be assisted”

Olivier Guivarch, national secretary of the CFDT

on franceinfo

Olivier Guivarch deplores “discrimination and prejudice“of which seniors are victims. For him, it is up to employers to take action and resolve this problem,”companies must offer jobs to seniors and must keep seniors employed.“