The CDFT denounces “a new arbitration once again in favor of the most fragile”. The Ministry of Labor sent the social partners the draft decree that implements the new unemployment insurance reform. The text provides for a 25% reduction in the duration of compensation for all job seekers who open rights to unemployment insurance from February 1 in mainland France.
But the first union in France discovered “with astonishment” that it also foresees that with an unemployment rate below 6% (compared to 7.3% today), the duration of the severance will be reduced by 40% and not by a 25%. “The modulation of unemployment insurance according to the economic situation is not a solution to achieve full employment,” the CDFT reacted in a press release this Saturday, December 24.
The union denounces the “relentlessness” of the Government
“This drastic and unprecedented reduction in the rights of job seekers will in no way improve their entry into the labor market and will only aggravate the difficulties faced by these people,” the union adds. The CDFT denounces the “ruthlessness” of the government “on the exclusive rights of job seekers, reflecting a stigmatizing, simplistic and archaic vision of the functioning of the labor market.”
“Discovering in the draft decree an even harsher provision for the unemployed without it having been discussed in consultation with the social partners. It is pure disloyalty on the part of the government and it still hits the unemployed hard,” CFDT said. Secretary General Laurent Berger on Twitter.
Source: BFM TV
