the government plans to deprive employees of unemployment benefits in the event of job abandonment

Thursday, September 29, it is still possible to give up your job, but to receive unemployment benefits. However, this possibility could disappear. “There is indeed a flaw“, says Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labour, Full Employment and Integration. The government could tighten the conditions for unemployment compensation in the event of dismissal for abandonment of post. Indeed, it would be a disguised means of ending to a contract, because it has advantages.

In the event of abandonment of post, the employee can receive unemployment benefits, as during a contractual rupture, which is not the case in most resignations. Abandonment of post would become a roundabout way of breaking up amicably, less expensive for the employer. “In small companies, we do not have the money to pay the contractual termination indemnity“, explains Me Michèle Bauer, lawyer specializing in labor law. For their part, the unions denounce a new violation of labor law.