TRUE OR FAKE: does the government really have a solid basis for reforming job abandonment?

Giving up your job as an employee and receiving unemployment after being made redundant is now possible. But not for long. “There is indeed a loophole, insofar as an employee who abandons his position has access to more favorable compensation conditions than an employee who resigns“, has declared Olivier Dussoptthe Minister of Labour. Job abandonment is the situation in which an employee leaves his job or is absent for a prolonged period without authorization from his employer. This often ends in dismissal for serious misconduct.

Despite this, the employee can then receive unemployment benefit, as in the case of a contractual termination, whereas this is not the case after a resignation. An advantage that the government wants to restrict by following the MP’s idea (LR) Jean Louis Thieriot, who tabled an amendment to limit access to unemployment.

But according to Pôle Emploi, INSEE and the statistical service of the Ministry of Labour, no figures exist to quantify job abandonments in France. What is Jean-Louis based on? Thieriot ? This one asserts to have discovered this”in his constituency”. “A study to quantify it is only a way to delay decision-making“, he judges. The amendment was adopted by the National Assembly, and must now be validated by the Senate.