The social partners are preparing to regain control over unemployment insurance and the employment of seniors. If the government had until now remained vague, the Minister of Labor, who met with employers and unions in recent days, was on the other hand very clear: they will have to make additional savings.
No new framework letter but savings nonetheless. According to our information, atronat and unions will have to make an additional 400 million euros in savings per year, or a total of 1.2 billion euros over the three years of the Unedic agreement. An amount which is added to the 400 million euros also expected thanks to the two-year shift in the age from which seniors benefit from a longer period of compensation.
These savings are certainly very far from those planned as part of the Attal reform, which has just been buried. The tightening of the rules was expected to ultimately bring in 3.5 billion euros per year.
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Cross-border workers in the sights of social partners
the social partners will however have to find solutions and everyone already has an idea in mind: tackling the system for cross-border workers, these French employees who work and contribute abroad, in Switzerland or Luxembourg for example and once unemployed are compensated by France, resulting in a bill of nearly 800 million euros per year for Unedic.
“We cannot eliminate this system, which depends on the Member States, but we can however adapt it,” explains an employer official.
The social partners are considering in particular how to influence the amount of the reasonable job offer. Thus, these unemployed cross-border workers would be forced to accept a job even if it is much less well paid than the previous one. A way to limit the bill. In order to give the social partners time to negotiate, the Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan Bouvet, is ready to extend the current rules until the end of December instead of the end of October.
