Several unions announced on Friday the presentation of an appeal against the unemployment insurance reform, which since February 1 has meant a reduction in the duration of compensation for all new job applicants.
The reform, which aims to modulate the conditions of unemployment insurance according to the situation of the labor market, provides for a 25% reduction in the duration of the compensation for all job seekers who have open rights since February 1. An unemployed person who would have been entitled, for example, to 12 months of severance under the old system, is now only entitled to nine months.
A minimum flat of six months is conserved. Therefore, the first impacts are expected from August 1. In a press release, Unsa was the first to announce that “in the face of a new unfair and brutal reform aimed at job seekers”, the organization had “decided to seize the Council of State to obtain its cancellation”.
“Same strategy” of the Government as for the pension reform
Shortly after, the CGT, FSU and Solidaires announced that they were “attacking the unemployment insurance decree of the Council of State” published on January 26, specifying that “all the unions file appeals jointly.” According to the CGT, the CFDT and the CFTC must submit a joint appeal, the other appeals must come from FO and CFE-CGC.
“If the government persists in forcing its pension reform, we must not forget that it used the same strategy, despite the unanimous opposition of all the unions to reform unemployment insurance,” write the CGT, FSU and Solidaires, denouncing “an unfair , an unjustified reform that violates the rights of those deprived of employment a little more”.
The previous controversial reform, launched in 2019 and in full force at the end of 2021, had been delayed for two years due to Covid and the unions’ appeals to the Council of State. In particular, it has tightened the compensation conditions for jobseekers, particularly those alternating periods of work and inactivity.
Source: BFM TV
