This measure, carried by the government and decried by the left, received the support of the deputies of the Les Républicains party.
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Employees leaving their position will be presumed to have resigned. The National Assembly voted Wednesday, October 5 amendments of the majority and the deputies Les Républicains (LR) to limit access to unemployment insurance, despite criticism from the left. “The employee who has voluntarily abandoned his position and does not return to work after having been given formal notice for this purpose (…) is presumed to have resigned”stipulate the amendments adopted by 219 votes against 68 within the framework of the examination in first reading of the bill of reform of the unemployment insurance.
The government, through the voice of Minister Delegate Carole Grandjean, said it was in favor of this measure on job abandonment, “a constantly increasing phenomenon”. These employees no longer come to work, without justification, and end up being fired by their employer. They can then receive unemployment insurance.
The left has taken issue with this phenomenon, citing cases “marginal” and pleading not to “weakening the protection of employees”. “What is the cause of these job abandonments?”, asked communist Pierre Dharréville, suggesting a link to working conditions.
“We do not deprive employees of any rights. They always have the possibility of appeal” before the industrial tribunal, for his part underlined Jean-Louis Thiériot (LR), criticizing some on the left “the choice of the right to laziness”.
Unemployment insurance is in principle reserved for people who are involuntarily deprived of employment. For resigners, there are some limited exceptions. But a dismissal for abandonment of post constitutes a dismissal for fault and does not currently deprive the dismissed of his right to benefit from unemployment insurance, although the abandonment of post is “voluntary”.