Laurent Berger, Secretary General of the CFDT, denounced the entry into force, Friday, rules that harden the conditions of compensation for the unemployed.

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Friday comes into force the first steps of the recent reform of unemployment insurance. While some new rights are open for some resigning employees or for some self-employed, it is mainly the hardening of the conditions to qualify for compensation or the degressivity of high-income allowances that elicits the most comments. "These rules are a punishment for job seekers," said Laurent Berger Monday on Europe 1. "We enter a form of poverty trap".

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