the Barnier authorities returns to the Attal reforms | EUROtoday

Little by little, Michel Barnier’s authorities is revealing its roadmap in social issues. If they’re confirmed, a number of intentions displayed by the brand new group in energy unravel a part of the tasks of the earlier prime minister, Gabriel Attal. Latest instance: the particular solidarity allowance (ASS), the elimination of which was introduced on the finish of January. This profit, granted – beneath sure circumstances – to job seekers who’ve exhausted their unemployment insurance coverage rights, will finally be maintained.

It was Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, the Minister of Labor, who revealed this arbitration. In a every day interview West France dated Saturday October 5-Sunday October 6, she explains having ” got “ that this social minimal “sort (…) of all budgetary discussions and that we [le] not delete as is ». The disappearance of this allowance was part of the decisions presented on January 30 by Mr. Attal during his general policy speech to the National Assembly. At the time head of government, he explained that the ASS would be switched to the active solidarity income (RSA) – in other words replaced by it. A choice strongly criticized because it was likely to penalize people in very precarious circumstances.

However, a few days before the European elections of June 9, the executive had given the feeling of hesitation, Catherine Vautrin, then Minister of Labor, indicating that the implementation of the measure was not “not an immediate news item”. The voluntary sector, which helps essentially the most disadvantaged, noticed this as the start of a renunciation. Today, the abandonment of the venture seems to have been confirmed.

No new framework letter

Another reform carried by Mr. Attal additionally appears to be buried: that of unemployment insurance coverage, which was to tighten the principles relevant to job seekers by the use of a decree placed on maintain since June. In his interview with West France,M^me Panosyan-Bouvet reaffirms the need, already expressed by Mr. Barnier, to “give back control to the social partners” on this difficulty, which concretely implies that worker and employer organizations will reopen negotiations on the unemployment compensation system. The dialogue between the protagonists shall be primarily based on the settlement which was concluded in November 2023 by employers and three unions (CFDT, CFTC, FO), however which the chief finally refused to validate.

Wishing “give maximum chances for social dialogue to work”,M^me Panosyan-Bouvet specifies that there shall be no new framework letter from Matignon which might dictate targets to the representatives of staff and enterprise leaders. But this “doesn’t prohibit the State and the social companions from speaking to one another, fairly the opposite! »she provides, as if to emphasise the change in technique advocated by the federal government, thus breaking with seven years of Macronism throughout which there have been many tensions with the middleman our bodies.

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