Unemployment insurance reform: a meeting between the unions and the Minister of Labor

The reform of unemployment insurance will mark the political news of the start of the school year. Monday, September 12, the social partners have an appointment with Olivier Dussoptthe minister of labor. A new showdown is on the way, as journalist Sébastien Thomas explains, live from Ministry of Labourin Paris : “There are two completely different logics that clash in this area of ​​​​unemployment insurance”.

“On the one hand, the government trying to promote countercyclicality. Logic dictates that when unemployment is high, the system is generous, and when unemployment is low, the rules are stricter. The objective is to encourage the unemployed to overcome the shortage of labor that we are currently experiencing. But opposite, the unions are upwind, all absolutely against “concludes the journalist, explaining that the unions are calling for “Insist more on training, mobility, childcare or even salary increases”.