“We know that the duration of compensation has an effect on the return to work“, defended on franceinfo the deputy Renaissance Marc Ferracci, rapporteur for the reform of unemployment insurance, Monday, October 3, while the National Assembly resumes its work on the bill. The macronists, for lack of an absolute majority, expect support from the right.
“What we see is that when the end of rights approaches, the rate of people returning to work tends to increase because we tend to activate their job search, to respond to more of offers.”
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This bill wants to implement “the modulation of unemployment insurance rules, the idea is to make these rules more protective when the labor market situation is bad“, details Marc Ferracci, “when the unemployment rate is high, for example, and more incentives to return to work when the situation improves“.
According to him, “today, we are in a rather good situation with an unemployment rate of 7.4% of the active population, we were at 9.5 in 2017“and we have”a lot of tension on the labor market with labor shortages, we are rather in a situation where we are on the incentive side of the reform“.
The duration of compensation and eligibility, “how many months do you need to work to qualify for unemployment insurance?“, are the criteria on which the government wants to base itself to put in place these incentive measures. “Today you are compensated” if you “have worked six months in the past 24 months“, that “could go to 7 or 8 months, I don’t know“, he acknowledges. “We must know before making a decision, how many people will potentially be affected“.
“When we move, by increasing it or decreasing the duration of compensation, we have an effect on the effective duration of unemployment“, insists Marc Ferracci. “This has an incentive effect, but if the benefit period is reduced too much, a phenomenon may occur which forces people to accept poor quality jobs.“, he points out.
Marc Ferracci affirms it: “We will not touch the amount of the allowance“, because this option was ruled out by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, “we will not lower the amount of the allowance for people who are compensated or who will receive compensation, because we are in a situation where we are trying to protect the purchasing power of the French.“
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