unions called on the government to officially abandon global reforms

Since his arrival, Sébastien Lecornu himself seems to have abandoned the idea and focused more on conventional splits.

Five union representatives and two employers’ organizations, except Medef, asked the government to officially abandon its plans to carry out new negotiations on unemployment insurance, in a letter consulted by AFP, Friday 14 November. CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC, on the union side, and CPME and U2P (craftsmen), on the employers’ side, urged Sébastien Lecornu to withdraw the financial framework that had been communicated in August by the government of his predecessor François Bayrou to set out the desired savings.

This withdrawal should allow them, they explained, to open, “In the coming weeks, inter-professional negotiations on the issue of short contracts”. A negotiation that isI “ll also be an opportunity to examine the issue of bankruptcyure conventional”according to their letter.

Since his arrival, Sébastien Lecornu seems to have abandoned the idea of ​​a new global reform in unemployment insurance to target “conventional rupture (Who) can lead to abuse.. Labor Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou said on Thursday that he “proposed to social partners” from’“to seize” of this subject. “We want to move quickly enough to achieve savings of several hundred million euros”he said to Paris. Such discussions will occur, the union pleaded in their letter, “with a global and balanced approach, with the common goal of strengthening the quality of employment and ensuring career paths”.

In its framework letter, in August, François Bayrou’s government asked social partners to negotiate a new unemployment insurance agreement making savings of 2 to 2.5 billion euros per year between 2026 and 2029. The agreement set November 15 as the deadline for the agreement, but discussions never took place.