This is one of the hot archives that the government wants to open at the beginning of the school year. In his framing letter addressed to social partners and consulted by BFM Business, Prime Minister François Bayrou invites unions and employers, within the framework of new negotiations of the unemployment insurance agreement, to “strengthen[er] Incentives for a rapid return to employment for people who have completed an individual contractual termination “with your previous employer.
The system would have been “without creating” of its objectives according to the government. The Minister of Labor and Employment even believes that there are “objectively many abuses, on the employee’s side as on the commercial side.” On the employers’ side, the entourage of Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet specifies that it can be “disguised as’ disguised ‘in conventional ruptures.”
If the Head of Government remains evasive in his framework, the cabinet of the Minister of Labor has already suggested, at the end of July, extend the period of deficiency, that is, the period during which the employee has negotiated a contractual termination with his company does not have the right to unemployment insurance. In this way, the conventional rupture system would be less attractive to employees.
“We lack encrypted data”
The government’s strategy questions specialists in labor law. “There is a lack of encrypted data on the volume of conventional ruptures that really lead to compensation by the work of France,” he regrets that Cécile Paga, of the company Synanto Avocats, Aupès of BFM Business.
“When it is in a conventional break, it has a very high unemployment registration rate, not far from 90%,” insists a source close to the government. The latter is based in particular on the statistics of Dares, backed by the Ministry of Labor. Each quarter, this service publishes the figures and developments in entries in France Work, for reason. For example, in the second quarter of 2025, 40,300 people registered in France work after having completed a contractual rest with their previous employer.
“It is a monthly average that must be multiplied by 3”, specifies this same source near the file related to the negotiations of the unemployment insurance agreement. This would give, if we follow this reasoning, more than 120,000 inscriptions in France’s work after a contractual breakup during the quarter. This would correspond to the vast majority of conventional ruptures identified by quarter by the Dares, which totaled, for example, almost 128,000 in the first quarter of 2025.
But these are just records for France’s work. However, any record does not systematically trigger the payment of unemployment benefits. Contacted by BFM Business, Dares indicate that “it does not publish the number of conventional ruptures that effectively lead to unemployment compensation by France Work.” On the other hand, “the correct openings to unemployment compensation after a contractual termination are published by the Unédic,” specifies.
Two thirds of conventional ruptures lead to compensation
These data, accessible in open data in a monitoring table for unemployment insurance, indicate that in 2024, 333,724 beneficiaries were compensated by France’s work after a contractual termination concluding with its last company. If this number is informed at 514,627 conventional ruptures totalized last year by the Daines, this means that in two thirds of the cases, a worker who leaves his employer in the context of a contractual termination is subsequently compensated by the work of France.
On the other hand, the contractual termination does not constitute the first reason to open the rights to unemployment insurance. In 2024, 519,072 people became beneficiaries after the end of a fixed -term contract, 361,779 after a dismissal for personal reasons or a rupture of the period of judgment by the employer. On the other hand, the beneficiaries of a conventional rupture are more likely to be compensated by the work of France than the people who have become beneficiaries after the end of an interim mission (195,493), an economic dismissal (130,859), the end of a learning contract (122,446) or even a voluntary salt (58,105).
Conventional ruptures increased by 30% in seven years
However, if the government is directed in particular individual conventional ruptures, it is because they have progressed significantly in recent years.
However, even if there is the collective contractual termination system, which can only be activated in the employers’ initiative, the individual conventional breakup is not systematically initiated by employees.
“When a company is not satisfied with an employee, but wants to avoid a dispute that can be long, it can offer an individual contractual break,” explains Anne Leleu-Summer. “In the Pifometer, I would say that 30% of individual individual breaks are in the employers initiative,” he said.
However, according to me, Cécile pays, attacking conventional ruptures since the government is not as winning as this in terms of savings. “I accompanied many companies that first rejected a contractual termination to their employees and then obtained a declaration of professional disability. Therefore, they are compensated by the work insurance and the health insurance of France, which is expensive,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
