Intermittents in the entertainment industry and unemployment insurance: employers withdraw their proposal in the face of anger from the sector – 08/11/2024 at 2:31 p.m.

This Friday, November 8, in the morning, hundreds of workers gathered in front of the Unédic headquarters in Paris to protest against the employers' proposal.

Rear machine. This Friday, November 8,

the employers withdrew their proposal

to tighten the conditions for affiliation of intermittent entertainment workers to unemployment insurance as part of the negotiation of a new agreement with the unions. This proposal “on intermittent workers

will not be part of the final employer proposal”,

Medef negotiator Hubert Mongon declared to the press.

In a document submitted on Wednesday ahead of Friday's negotiation meeting, Medef wanted

raise the minimum number of hours worked

over the last 12 months to be able to benefit from the intermittent regime of 507 to 580 hours for artists and 610 hours for technicians. A few hundred workers gathered in the morning in front of the Unédic headquarters in Paris to

protest against the employer's proposal.

“The sector is mobilized and it will not accept reductions in rights for intermittent entertainment workers,” warned the general secretary of the CGT Spectacles Ghislain Gauthier.

“If these measures were adopted, it would be

a third of intermittent workers who would leave the regime”,

he said, speaking of

“very serious threat” and “provocation

towards our professions”. Around 10 a.m., the number of demonstrators was estimated by the CGT at between 300 and 400. As intermittent workers in the entertainment industry are, by the nature of their activity, more frequently unemployed than other employees,

their sector benefits more from the allocations than it contributes to them

and is regularly the subject of criticism due to its high cost for unemployment insurance.

Find an additional 400 million euros

Negotiations between social partners, which also concern the employment of seniors,

must conclude on November 14

and the new unemployment insurance agreement will replace the current rules for compensating the unemployed from January 1.

The government has asked the social partners to

find an additional 400 million euros

compared to the agreement concluded in November 2023, signed by the CFDT, FO and the CFTC as well as by all employers' organizations, but which had not been approved by the Attal government due to lack of agreement on seniors. In its draft amendment to the 2023 agreement, Medef also proposed, to generate savings,

reduce benefits for cross-border workers

who receive compensation calculated on the basis of their salaries received abroad, which are most of the time much higher than in France, particularly for those who worked in Switzerland and Luxembourg.