Unédic attracts up a primary blended evaluation of the 2023 unemployment insurance coverage reform | EUROtoday

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A France Travail agency in Dammarie-les-Lys (Seine-et-Marne), April 23, 2024.

The 2023 unemployment insurance coverage reform was to be the “first step” to attain full employment. Two and a half years later, the unemployment price reached 7.7% of the lively inhabitants, removed from the focused 5%. It is on this context that Unédic – the joint physique which manages the scheme – attracts up an preliminary evaluation of those adjustments applied when Olivier Dussopt was Minister of Labor (2022-2024), in a observe revealed Thursday December 18.

Coming into drive on 1er February 2023, the reform had established the precept of “countercyclicality” within the compensation of job seekers to be able to reply to Emmanuel Macron’s promise through the 2022 marketing campaign: to make unemployment insurance coverage stricter when the labor market is doing nicely, and extra beneficiant when it’s deteriorating. The period of compensation was thus lowered by 25% (with a minimal of six months) from the second the unemployment price is beneath 9%. The most period of rights is now capped at eighteen months for job seekers below 55 – the principles differ for these over 55 and 57.

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