The government validates the agreement on unemployment insurance concluded by the social partners

This compromise found by the unions and employers notably plans to raise by two years, from January, the age limits from which unemployed seniors benefit from a longer duration of compensation.

The agreement reached between employers and several unions on unemployment insurance was approved by the government, according to a decree published Friday, December 20 in the Official Journal. This agreement on the new rules for compensation for the unemployed, which must apply from January, was signed by the CFDT, FO and the CFTC, as well as by the three employers’ organizations (Medef, CPME, U2P). The CGT and CFE-CGC had not initialed it.

A large majority of social partners managed to agree on November 15, at the end of lightning negotiations, on these new rules, which notably provide for raising by two years the age limits from which unemployed seniors benefit a longer compensation period. Just before the censorship, the Barnier government had decided to approve this agreement as part of the management of current affairs, but the new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, could have decided otherwise.

The agreement provided that one would have to have worked at least five months, not six months, in the last 24 months to register for unemployment insurance. But this measure will not come into force, because it requires legislation, specifies the government decree, signed by François Bayrou. As announced, a measure which planned to reduce the compensation of cross-border workers, calculated on the basis of their salaries received abroad and often much higher than in France, is also excluded from approval, for legal reasons.