The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt declared this Sunday that he wanted to raise by two years the age of access to longer compensation for older unemployed people, following the pension reform, without taking up Bruno Le Maire’s proposal to shorten the duration compensation.
“We would like this increase in the duration of employment of senior job seekers to be shifted by two years, from 55 to 57 years, to be consistent with what we have done on the retirement age and because we know that one of the challenges for full employment in France is the employment of seniors“, said Olivier Dussopt during the show “Political issues” (France Inter, France Télévisions and Le Monde).
The maximum duration of unemployment insurance compensation for the unemployed is currently 18 months up to age 52, 22.5 months for those aged 53-54 and 27 months for those aged 55 and over.
The main measure of the pension reform, implemented in 2023, is the increase in the legal retirement age by two years, to 64 years.
At the end of November, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire considered that longer compensation for those over 55 was a way of “early retirement for those over 55“. He said he wanted to lower the duration of their compensation compared to that of other unemployed people, from 27 to 18 months.
For Olivier Dussopt, “the question is not so much the duration (of compensation) as to ensure that we do not have systems“which incite”getting seniors out of the job market“. He recalled that the employment rate of seniors was much lower in France than the European average.
An increase of two years in the age limits must “be accompanied by a training effort“, specified the Minister of Labor.
2023-12-10 14:38:52
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