After unveiling general plans for unemployment insurance reform, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal admitted he wants to tighten the rules for unemployment benefits.
After his announcements in Sunday tribunedefended by Gabriel Attal future unemployment insurance reform and tightening the rules for receiving benefits when you are unemployed.
Traveling this Sunday to Étrechy (Essonne), the Prime Minister first confirmed that “the system today allows not to look for work in certain cases” while “there are hundreds of thousands of jobs in France.
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The tightening of the screws was supposed to “have a social model that is more activity-oriented, but while maintaining the protection that remains one of the strongest protections in Europe. I am also very proud of it, and the French are committed to it,” assures Gabriel Attal.
“Moving towards full employment”
“We have to work harder,” he insisted, confirming that our model is “self-financing” and that he does not “want the financing of our social model to rely solely on the efforts of the working middle class.”
In his interview with Sunday tribune, the prime minister called for reform “to move towards full employment” and “value work even more”. Among the selected options, the duration of the benefit will be reduced to 15 months “under current conditions”, i.e. if the unemployment rate remains below 9%, for unemployed people under the age of 57.
You will have to work for 8 months in the last 20 months to get the benefit, compared to 6 months in the last 24 months currently, the head of government said. Gabriel Attal also hinted that the executive will issue a decree on 1this one July so that the reform “will enter into force on 1this one December”.