The union accuses the government of reducing the right to compensation for the unemployed in order to be able to “dip” into the unemployment insurance funds to “fill other deficits”.
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“The government has nothing to do with social issues”criticizes Wednesday February 28 at the microphone of France Inter Michel Beaugas, confederal employment and pensions secretary of the Force Ouvrière union, while the executive multiplies the warnings on a possible tightening of unemployment insurance rules.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Tuesday on RTL his desire to “reopen the construction site” of unemployment insurance to have a “social model which encourages more activity”. A statement that worries Michel Beaugas. The trade unionist sees in these words “an attack on job seekers”.
He fears that a possible reform would tighten the compensation rules. “From month to month, the government attacks job seekers by reducing their rights to compensation”, he accuses. Michel Beaugas recalls that unemployment insurance is a source of savings and that the government is looking for “Billions of Euro’s”. “By removing rights, by lowering rights, we increase unemployment insurance surpluses [dans lesquels] the government can draw to be able to fill other public deficits”he adds.
