It is an exceptional measure taken by the government which decided to grant unemployment to workers who resigned before March 17, the date of the start of confinement, and who, for many, find themselves unemployed, the company having to hire them having closed due to coronavirus.

What fate is reserved for employees who resigned just before the start of confinement to join another company which had made an offer to them and which today is giving up hiring them? A case not so rare as that, recognizes the Ministry of Labor. Hence a decree in preparation for next week which will grant employees thus trapped the benefit of unemployment compensation.

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This is the case, for example, of Patrick, who resigned from his post in mid-January with the aim, once his notice had ended, of joining a new, more interesting job in another company. Hiring was scheduled for mid-April. Except that in the meantime the confinement has arrived, and the shutdown of a multitude of companies, including the one he was about to join. "I got scared because since I was resigning, I was wondering if my employer was going to employ me since his business is closed like most of the others and suddenly do not hire me and find myself without employment ", he tells the microphone of Europe 1.

Unemployment compensation for resignations asked before March 17

Patrick is not the only one to experience this situation. With the risk, if the employer gives up recruiting, to be found without income since the resigners, except exception, are not entitled to unemployment benefits.

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It is "a hole in the racket", recognized Thursday Muriel Pénicaud. An observation which explains the temporary measure currently in preparation: employees who have resigned in Patrick's situation will be entitled to unemployment compensation on an exceptional basis if their resignation was asked before March 17, date of the start of confinement. Provided also that the job they wanted is a CDI or CDD of more than 3 months. The right to unemployment compensation will also be granted if, within 65 days from March 1, the employer terminated the contract that he had nevertheless signed with the employee.