It's back to school for MPs.

And from this first day, the hemicycle risks being in turmoil with a particularly contested text on the menu.

The National Assembly indeed resumes its work on Monday with a bill which initiates a new reform of unemployment insurance.

Before these discussions, the deputies will discuss from 4 p.m. on the “war in Ukraine and its consequences for France”.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will open this debate, which places the start of the parliamentary session under the seal of this burning international news.

The majority intends to challenge elected RNs, whom they regularly accuse of being close to Russia.

Some 300 amendments

The passes of arms should resume with a vengeance from 9:30 p.m. on the bill on “emergency measures” for “full employment”, which is carried by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt.

On the program at the Palais-Bourbon until Wednesday, with some 300 amendments to the key, it initially plans to extend the current rules of unemployment insurance.

Coming from a hotly contested reform of Macron's first five-year term, they expire on October 31.

The bill also triggers the possibility, by decree, of modulating unemployment insurance so that it is "stricter when too many jobs are unfilled, more generous when unemployment is high", in the words of Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign.

After a consultation phase within a few weeks with the social partners, the government will decide by decree on the form that this modulation will take, for entry into force in early 2023.

The Nupes deplore a "stigma" of the unemployed

The executive insists that there is urgency in the face of recruitment difficulties, and makes this reform one of the conditions for achieving the objective of full employment in 2027, i.e. an unemployment rate of around 5% against 7 .4% currently.

In unison with the unions, the left-wing alliance Nupes responds that recruitment difficulties are primarily linked to training and the attractiveness of professions (salaries, working conditions, etc.), and deplore a "stigmatization" of unemployed.

At LR, the reception of the bill is better, even if Thibault Bazin thinks that it will not change "the situation in the short term to encourage the resumption of work".

As in the summer on the purchasing power package, the votes of these deputies, or at least their abstention, are necessary for the text to be adopted.

The Minister therefore made overtures to proposals from the right to tighten access to compensation on the grounds of "post abandonment", or to simplify the validation of acquired experience (VAE), in particular for caregivers, another aspect of the bill.

On the other hand, the elected RNs will not make the extra votes: they judge the measures to be incomplete, in the absence of taking into account in particular the youth.

Finally, for rapid final adoption, the bill will be examined by the Senate on October 25 at first reading.

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