The government spokesman defended the reform of the executive which will reduce the duration of unemployment benefits from February 1st.
“In the period we are living in, 18 months to find a job is enough,” government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Tuesday of the tightening of conditions for granting unemployment insurance announced on Monday. .
“What we want is to tell people: the spirit of unemployment insurance is the spirit of the National Council of the Resistance”, developed Olivier Véran on the set of CNews, convinced that the “logic” of the current reform is “guided” from that of time.
“The state said ‘there will be times when people won’t be able to find work because the job market will be too tight, so they will need to be insured so they don’t lose all of their income,'” he explained. “It is normal that when the risk is high, the insurance is strong and when the risk is low, the insurance is a little less strong,” he said.
“Quite straightforward mechanism”
The government announced on Monday a 25% reduction in the length of compensation for all jobseekers who open entitlements from February 1, a decision deemed “unacceptable” by all unions. The unemployment rate is currently 7.3%. The reform calls for the duration of wages to return to today’s level if the unemployment rate rises above 9% or increases by 0.8 points in a quarter.
When asked about Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt’s hope of “100,000 to 150,000 additional returns to work” in 2023 thanks to the reform, the government spokesman estimated that it would be “a fairly direct mechanism in fact, you will see that there will be a quite massive impact on the labor market because it is also a signal that we are sending”.
“social humiliation”
This reform “deceives the French as to the real state of economic health of the country: the factories have not returned, French agriculture is no better”, reacted for his part on France2 the RN deputy of the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy. He regrets that the “French are being made to believe that today the unemployed are primarily responsible for their situation”.
On the other side of the political spectrum, LFI MP for Val d’Oise, Paul Vannier denounced the “violence” and “social humiliation” that the application of these measures will represent. “This decision will plunge millions of people, women, men, their children (…) into poverty (…) and is therefore profoundly unjust”, he declared to the microphones of RFI.
“This story, which consists in making believe that there would be a stock of jobs that nobody wants to fill, is a lie and serves to come and take rights from the unemployed”, the deputy regretted again. For his part, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (DLF) expressed concern to Sud Radio about the “dramatic consequences” for the “over 55s”, while acknowledging that the reform “in itself can be explained because there are sometimes abuses.
