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A sign of the right-winging of his political proposal, the one who had promised a safety net to employees leaving their jobs is doing just the opposite: “abandonments of post” will no longer give the right to compensation from unemployment insurance. A brutal regression targeting the most vulnerable employees.
On many subjects, the Macron of 2017 is only a distant memory. Times have changed and several major crises have passed through it, but that does not justify everything. At the time, while the recognition of burnout and more broadly of suffering at work had generally progressed during François Hollande’s five-year term, the candidate En Marche had joined this movement of social progress by promising that each employee choosing to quit their job (whether it is a resignation or what is called a “job abandonment”, we will come back to this) would be entitled to receive unemployment benefits. Macron’s logic was to promote fluidity in work life paths, by breaking a form of professional house arrest when campaign refrains more readily praised individual emancipation. There was no need to be afraid to leave one position to embrace another, collective solidarity being there to make the connection when this transition went through a period of inactivity.
Voluntarily guilty term
Five years later, this is not the case and the last unemployment insurance reform adopted in December – one of the toughest social texts since Macron’s arrival at the Elysée and regarding which we have especially denounced the downward modulation of the indemnity duration
