After a slow start, the device finally seems to take off. Since its launch at the end of 2019 within the framework of the law “for the freedom to choose one’s own professional future”, the opening of the right to unemployment to resigners in recycling has benefited 25,000 people for a total amount of 150 million euros in compensation paid, according to figures from Pôle emploi and Unédic revealed by the echoes.
Promising figures as the device struggled to find its audience when it launched. The complexity of the conditions that have to be fulfilled in order to benefit from it have probably slowed down the employees. Indeed, in order to receive unemployment benefit after resignation, it is necessary to have worked for five uninterrupted years prior to resignation, to carry out a “professional recycling project that requires follow-up training or a project to create or take control of a company. Project whose “real and serious” nature must then be validated by a joint regional interprofessional committee.
12,000 new entrants in 2021
Covid-19 also did not help the system to take off, while the very uncertain economic context at the beginning of 2020 did not really encourage employees to resign to create their company.
Ultimately, it took until 2021 to see momentum with 12,000 new beneficiaries that year. From January to April 2022, 3,800 new entrants have also been identified. An underestimated figure since it does not take into account the people who have resigned and are in training.
And the workforce could grow even more, as the number of employees resigning hits a record high in the first quarter of 2022: 520,000, including 470,000 on permanent contracts. Unprecedented since 2008, according to Dares. It will be necessary to see how many of them will decide to benefit from the unemployment benefit system to retrain. The impact study of the “Professional Future” bill projected between 17,000 and 30,000 new beneficiaries per year.
Source: BFM TV
