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This is a first "screw tightening" that applies. Starting this Friday, November 1, the first component of the unemployment insurance reform comes into force. Tougher access to compensation, but also opening new rights for departing employees and for some self-employed ... Europe 1 details these measures that can impact your daily life.
Hardening ...
Firstly, the duration required to be compensated by Pôle Emploi: it will be necessary to have worked 6 months in the 24 months preceding the entry to unemployment, and no longer, as until then, 4 months in the last 28 months . Unedic has calculated that with this tightening, 9% of the unemployed will lose all rights to compensation, while the others will take longer to touch it. Second flagship measure of this first salvo of the reform, the introduction of the degressivity of unemployment benefits for salaries above 4,500 euros gross per month. After six months at full rate, the unemployed person will suffer a reduction of 30% with a floor fixed at 2.261 euros net per month.
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"These are fairly technical measures, but in a few weeks for those affected, it will be a difficult awakening," comments at the microphone of Europe 1 Jean-Paul Domergue, volunteer at Solidarités nouvelles face unemployment. An awakening that may be even more difficult when the second part of the application will come into force on April 1, 2020: there, it is directly the method of calculation of unemployment benefits will be revised downward, and penalize the unemployed who alternate periods of work and non-work.
... and new rights
But these first measures of hardening also come with new rights for some. Thus, from 1 November, employees who have resigned and have at least five years of seniority in their company will be able to benefit from unemployment insurance to carry out a professional project. Another novelty, the self-employed will be able to touch, under certain conditions, a compensation of 800 euros per month during six months.