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The Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, invited the social partners on Monday for a meeting during which she presented the main tracks of her project.
Never two without three. While the unemployment insurance system has already been reformed twice under the chairmanship of Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, proposed, during the presentation, in mid-July, of his roadmap for the 2026 budget, new modifications concerning the perimeter of the right to unemployment of the French.
Believing that“It is not normal for a country like ours, with so many jobs offered, retains an unemployment rate above 7%”François Bayrou announced his intention to launch negotiations with the social partners on this subject. Without delay, the Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, summoned the actors of the discussion, unions in mind, for a bilateral meeting on Monday July 21. A meeting postponed by Force Ouvrière (FO) and shunned by the CGT and the CFE-CGC. “Given the announcements (by François Bayrou), We decided not to follow up. We don’t have to go and listen to damn “Takewards Jean-François Foucard, confederate secretary of the union in charge of professional careers, contacted by Franceinfo.
The CFTC was the only union, with the CFDT, to make an act of presence to exchange with the minister. “During this meeting, the government presented the two levers of the reform to us; an extension of the necessary time of affiliation (the conditions necessary to have unemployment rights)and a reduction in the duration of compensation “, unfolding Frédéric Belouze, in charge of the file for the union of Christian workers. Currently, an employee must have worked at least six months over the last twenty-four months to claim his unemployment benefits. With the government’s proposal, he You will have to have worked for eight over the twenty months preceding the breach of the contract. The maximum compensation duration would then increase to fifteen months, against eighteen currently, confirms the entourage of the Minister of Labor in Franceinfo.
With these proposals, still under discussion, the government hopes to facilitate recruitments in companies, push job seekers to return to the labor market and “Avoid an amplification of the degradation of the financial trajectory of the UNEDIC”. But these measures must above all allow to report “Between 2 and 2.5 billion euros for the period 2026-2029, and 3 to 4 billion euros in saving by 2030”, Depending on the costing of Minister’s teams.
A final burning subject could be put at the table of discussions: conditions of access to unemployment insurance after a contractual termination. On this subject, the establishment of a period before the start of compensation is under study, according to information from Franceinfo.
In the opinion of all the unions contacted, the reform proposal resembles, on several points, to that brought by Gabriel Attal in June 2024, when he was Prime Minister, and whose application had been suspended in front of the general outcry, then abandoned after the dissolution of the National Assembly.
“This is a negotiation request that is only made on the back of people who are unemployed, this is not possible.”
Frédéric Belouze, leader on employment and unemployment issues at the CFTCin franceinfo
Remains that at present, the opening of negotiations on this reform remains particularly uncertain. At the CFDT, the term of “”Total carnage “ Was employed on Monday by its secretary general, Marylise Léon, denouncing a volume of savings “Who has never been done”. “NWe are very reserved for our participation “, For its part, warns the CFTC, which is said to be disagreement with the analysis of its budgetary trajectory of the system: “We are presented this reform as a desire to perpetuate the accounts of the UNEDIC; but the accounts of the UNEDIC are going very well”, Combines Frédéric Belouze.
“It’s absolutely unacceptable, we will fight (this reform project)“”also confirms, to Franceinfo, the CGT, through the voice of Denis Gravouil, Confederate secretary in charge of the file. An almost unanimous front that worries Eric Chevée, vice-president of the confederation of small and medium -sized enterprises (CPME). In the event of the absence or failure of the negotiations, “Social actors may no longer have orders for the regime in their hands”, he anticipates the columns of World.
And the calendar remains tight. The framing documents should be sent at the end of July to the unions. They will then have until November 15 to agree, failing which the government will regain control, being able to decide a reform by decree.
