the conditional withdrawal of the controversial reform undertaking launched by François Bayrou | EUROtoday

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The Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou, speaks in the Senate, November 26, 2025, in Paris.

The authorities continues to be sustaining some suspense round unemployment insurance coverage. Saturday, November 29, the Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou, wrote to unions and employers to announce that the extremely contested undertaking to reform the job seekers’ compensation system, carried by the earlier staff in energy, will likely be withdrawn. This resolution is, nonetheless, accompanied by a number of situations which encourage a type of mistrust amongst these chargeable for worker facilities.

Mr. Farandou’s strategy is a response to the letter despatched, on November 14, to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, by the principle organizations of staff and enterprise leaders – excluding Medef, which didn’t want to co-sign it. In the letter in query, they urged the tenant of Matignon to resign the highway map that his predecessor, François Bayrou, had despatched them on August 8. He then proposed to the social actors to open negotiations to be able to revisit the foundations of unemployment insurance coverage.

The centrist’s goal was clear: tighten the parameters in order that these registered with France Travail return to work as shortly as doable whereas decreasing compensation bills. The anticipated quantity of financial savings was important: between 2 billion and a couple of.5 billion euros per yr. on common » from 2026 to 2029 then 4 billion (at an annual fee) from 2030. So many orientations which had revolted the unions – the CFDT even seeing it as a “carnage”.

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