Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt considers it “necessary to go further” with regard to the reform of unemployment insurance and outlines his lines of work, in an interview with the Parisian Posted this Tuesday night.
While the executive has set itself the goal of reaching full employment by 2027, that is, an unemployment rate of around 5% compared to the current 7.3%, Olivier Dussopt assures that this goal is “possible” thanks to the RSA and unemployment insurance reforms.
“There is an urgency: that the unemployment insurance reform, decided in 2019 and launched in 2021 due to Covid, see its rules extended. They expire on November 1, 2022,” says the minister.
This will go through a text of law presented at the beginning of the school year, which will be the first on the menu of Parliament at the return of the summer break in early October.
A text in Parliament at the beginning of the school year
The minister explains that the Government intends to expand these controversial regulations “to allow this reform to continue producing its positive effects and to think about the next step”.
“It is necessary to go further,” he continues. “Our compensation rules must take into account the situation of the labor market, as does, for example, Canada. When things are going well, we tighten the rules and, when things are bad, we relax them,” he explains, assuming a commitment Emmanuel Macron campaign.
“Areas can be opened, on the duration of the compensation and its decreasing nature. These parameters will be discussed within the framework of the consultation”, he underlines.
Pension reform for 2023?
Asked about the transformation of Pôle emploi into France Travail, the minister refutes a cosmetic name change and states, without going into details, that this will lead to “simplifying and better coordinating the actors (local authorities, private actors, etc.)” .
As for the RSA, which the president said he wanted to allocate under the condition of carrying out 15 or 20 hours of “effective activity that allows integration”, Olivier Dussopt indicates that “the new modalities will be implemented as soon as possible”. .
Regarding pensions, he finally indicates that the consultation “will begin after the meeting of the National Refoundation Council, in September”, assuring that “the summer of 2023 is the horizon for the entry into force of the first effects of the reform”.
Source: BFM TV
