Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt said Tuesday that he was open to tightening access to unemployment compensation in the case of “a job abandonment”, when an employee no longer comes to work without justification and ends up being fired by his employer. employer. “There is a loophole: a worker who leaves his job has access to more favorable compensation conditions than a worker who resigns”, the minister pointed out before the Social Affairs Commission of the Assembly that is examining his bill on unemployment insurance .
“We are open to these conditions being aligned,” he added, while an amendment to the LR was presented in this regard, but ensuring “that employees who leave their jobs for security reasons are not sanctioned.”
Unemployment insurance is in principle reserved for people who are involuntarily deprived of employment. For those who resign, there are some limited exceptions. Among them, the act of following a spouse affected 14,000 cases in 2021 according to Unédic. Since 2019, the possibility has also been opened once every 5 years to those who have a professional project (12,000 cases in 2021). But the dismissal for abandonment of the position constitutes a dismissal for fault and does not deprive the dismissed person of his right to benefit from unemployment insurance, although the abandonment of the position is “voluntary”.
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However, if he is dismissed for serious misconduct, the worker will not receive any compensation for dismissal or compensation for notice and paid vacations. There are no statistics on these job losses, but the LR deputies assure in their amendment that “it is an increasingly palpable phenomenon in professional circles.”
“The worker who wants to leave his job (…) withdraw from the labor market with the objective of maintaining an income will not resign but simply will not return to work so that the boss, tired of the fight, fires him,” they said. “While the resigner is bound by a notice that allows the employer to organize, the ghost worker, by leaving his position overnight, disrupts the proper functioning of the company,” they add.
To combat recruitment tensions, Olivier Dussopt, on the other hand, was more reserved about the desire of certain deputies to tighten access to unemployment for a CDD that rejects a CDI. The Minister recalled that when a worker rejects a CDI offered under the same conditions as his CDD, then the employer does not owe the 10% precarious bonus, a provision that according to him he is unaware of.
Source: BFM TV
