Several associations of unemployed and precarious workers, as well as trade unions, demand "a white year" for the unemployed in order to avoid "a health and social disaster", in a letter addressed to the government. This letter is notably signed by AC! (Acting together against unemployment and insecurity), the national collective of workers deprived of employment and precarious workers (MNCP), the union SNU Pôle emploi, the collective of precarious hotel and catering events (CPHR).
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Some "only survived thanks to food solidarity"
"We are measuring the disaster that is happening. It is essential that you hear it and take these emergency measures," write fifteen associations, unions and collectives. With the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, "thousands of contract workers on a fixed-term or fixed-term contract, temporary workers, temporary workers, employment intermittent workers saw their assignments stopped or not renewed and will not see them roll over, "they said.
"Whole sectors of the economy - hotels, restaurants, culture, tourism, sports ... - are already at a standstill without knowing how quickly and what proportions they will be able to resume their activity", they continue. "These precarious workers who ordinarily live only from their work, did not benefit from exceptional protection measures during confinement and only survived thanks to the food solidarity organized by citizens and town halls ", they add.
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Signatories call for repeal of unemployment insurance reform
In order to avoid "a health and social disaster", they demand, among other things, "a white year", that is to say "the extension over one year of all the rights of the unemployed", that he There is no cancellation during the period, but also that the unemployment insurance reform, the second part of which is postponed, is repealed. This part, which hardens the calculation of the allowance for precarious workers, alternating short contracts and periods of unemployment, was indeed postponed from April 1 to September 1.
The government recently indicated that it would initiate a reflection "to quickly adapt" the rules of unemployment insurance, "beyond the measures to extend rights already taken", without providing details. Concerning the intermittent of the spectacle, the president of the Republic promised that their rights would be "prolonged of a year", beyond the six months when their activity will have been "impossible or very degraded", that is to say - say "until the end of August 2021".