The results of the legislative elections have forced the government to abandon its unemployment insurance reform. The compensation rules have already been extended for the first time until July 31.
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An extension. The government wants the current rules for unemployment insurance compensation to apply until September 30, according to a draft decree sent to social partners Wednesday evening, revealed by the AEF, a specialized press agency, and of which AFP obtained a copy on Thursday July 11. The new draft decree “aims to extend, until September 30, 2024, the provisions of the decree” preceding, which will cease to be in force on July 31, 2024. It thus allows the payment of unemployment benefits to continue.
“With regard to the bonus-malus, the draft decree renews identically the current rules for modulating the employer contribution from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025”specifies the executive document. The social partners must now issue an opinion on July 17 in the national commission while the compensation rules were extended for the first time until July 31 in a “joint decree”, to avoid any legal vacuum.
While it planned to further tighten the rules for compensation, the government was forced to abandon its new unemployment insurance reform, which was contested, on the evening of the first round of early legislative elections, which placed the National Rally and the New Popular Front, both opposed to these new measures, in the lead. The reform was to reduce the maximum duration of compensation from 18 to 15 months for people under 57 years of age from December 1. It would also have been necessary to have worked eight months out of the last 20 months to be compensated, compared to six months out of the last 24 months currently.
