2023-11-24 09:20:35
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, leaves the Élysée, in Paris, November 8, 2023. CLAUDIA GRECO/REUTERS
Bruno Le Maire is on the offensive once morest unemployment insurance. For several days, the Minister of the Economy has repeatedly repeated that our welfare state must be overhauled in order to achieve full employment in 2027, i.e. an unemployment rate of around 5% (compared to 7.4 % today), in accordance with a campaign promise from Emmanuel Macron. Thursday, November 23, on Franceinfo, he suggested a shock measure which would, according to him, contribute to achieving this objective: lowering the duration of compensation for unemployed people over 55 to align it with those of others.
Currently, job seekers under the age of 53 are entitled to an allowance for a maximum of eighteen months compared to twenty-two and a half months for those aged 53 to 55 and twenty-seven months for those over 55. .
For Mr. Mayor, “something is wrong with the French social model”, in particular with the compensation system for older unemployed people. There is no ” no reason “ that the coverage offered to those over 55 is longer than for other age groups: “ This is total hypocrisy.”he lamented Thursday.
Give a turn of the screw
The charge was initiated on November 12, on France Inter, when Mr. Le Maire judged that our social model should be “less attractive for those who do not work”. Rebelote a week later: in La Tribune Sunday of November 19, he pleaded for “courageous choices (…), notably [sur] unemployment insurance ». On Tuesday, in the Senate, he was even more direct: “The responsibility of companies is to keep those over 55 and hire them, rather than using unemployment insurance as a means of preparing for their retirements. »
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This rhetoric is by no means the result of chance. It allows us to send a message to unions and employers in a context where they reached an agreement, on November 10, to establish a new unemployment insurance agreement setting the rules for compensation. While the government must give its approval to this text for it to enter into force, Mr. Le Maire considers that the compromise concluded by the social partners is “perfectible”in particular from the point of view of financial balance: on the one hand, there is “certain expenses” but, on the other, “unlikely savings”. The minister makes this remark at a time when negotiations are to begin between social partners on the employment of seniors: in the discussions, it will be a question – among other things – of the modification of the parameters of unemployment benefit applicable to those over 53 years. Thus, Mr. Le Maire urges employee and employer organizations to take action, just before they begin their talks.
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