French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal confirmed last week that he wanted to once again review the rules of unemployment insurance. Objective: achieve full employment but also make savings as France’s deficit reaches 5.5% of GDP in 2023, much more than expected. Among the avenues mentioned by the head of government: reducing the duration of compensation for the unemployed.
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The wounds of immigration law have barely healed when the prospect of new unemployment insurance reform divides the majority again. Guest of the RTL/Le Figaro/M6 Grand Jury on Sunday, MP Sacha Houlié warns: reducing the duration of compensation for the unemployed by several months is “not not the right way “.
Saturday, in the columns of the newspaper West France, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire assured that he did not want to attack the unemployed. “ Let’s be clear: this is not financial reform. We are not doing it to save money but to achieve full employment, that is to say a 5% unemployment rate. », assured Saturday West France the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire.
But it does not reassure the left wing of the presidential camp. It’s a cost-saving measure and I don’t think we should make a cost-saving measure for the unemployed today, replied Sacha Houlié, who believes that the rules are already quite severe for job seekers. . The elected official from Vienna argued that the executive had already reformed unemployment insurance twice, in 2019 and 2023, in particular by implementing a “countercyclicality” measure, that is to say that the Compensation conditions tighten when unemployment falls, and become more flexible when it increases.
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Other early marchers spoke out against this reform. It would be ” unfair ”, and it is “ not the priority », writes Agnès Panosyan-Bouvet on the social network X.
Clément Beaune, former Minister of Transport, removed from the government in January, warns on France Info against the risk of making the most vulnerable vulnerable.
So tomorrow, Gabriel Attal will return to the Renaissance deputies to try to convince them. The Prime Minister knows that he absolutely must gather the majority if he wants to continue reforming.