The large central trade unions have or were to file on Friday their new appeals against the controversial reform of unemployment insurance that entered into force on October 1, determined to fight an “unfair” provision penalizing job seekers.
The unions had urgently obtained in June the suspension of the contested new rules for calculating unemployment benefit, a flagship measure of the reform which was to come into force on July 1, the Council of State arguing "uncertainties about the economic situation ".
The highest administrative court has still not delivered its decision on the merits - the date of which is not yet known - but the government has meanwhile published a new decree, highlighting "the sharp rebound in employment since May ”and allowing the entry into force of the reform on 1 October.
The CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC - which had abstained the previous time - had quickly indicated that they were going to attack the new text.
Fiercely opposed from the outset to the reform, the unions believe that the new method of calculating the daily reference wage (SJR), the basis of the allowance, will penalize job seekers alternating unemployment and activity, "the permittents".
Unions think they have the calendar for them
They are counting on the fact that the first payment of post-reform allowances will not intervene before the beginning of November, thus leaving time for the Council of State to decide. In a joint statement, the CGT, FSU and Solidaires indicate this Friday to make an appeal "against the announced social disaster". The three unions, who file an appeal "for annulment accompanied by an interim suspension" against the new decree, note that it is "a true copy" of the previous one where "all the elements demonstrating the injustice and the futility of the reform were already registered ”. They believe that the Council of State "must not give in to government pressure".
The CFDT was to file its appeal in the afternoon, jointly with the CFTC.
FO filed his own on Thursday evening, with angles of attack that are "exactly the same as the last time," said Michel Beaugas, unemployment insurance negotiator within the union.
"We do not want the debate on the economic situation to obscure the basic debate on the unfairness of this reform, arguments that we were already developing in 2019", when the reform was presented.
The Unsa also filed Thursday an appeal based, according to its Deputy Secretary General Vanessa Jereb, on the "inequity" of the daily reference wage, the "contradictions" of the government in its presentation on the improvement of the economic situation and on The stated “objective” to fight against short contracts.
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The anger of job seekers at "a deeply unfair reform"
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A method of calculating unemployment benefits that is the subject of debate
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