Unemployment insurance and the economist judge

The bold bar sentence and in black the brief press release published by the Council of State on Monday after its interim order suspending the entry into force of the unemployment insurance reform initially scheduled for 1^is next July: “An economic situation too uncertain for an immediate application of the new rules for calculating the allowance. It is an understatement to say that this formulation provoked reactions.

The unions, at the origin of the action before administrative justice, loudly hailed their “victory” – and they can. More quietly, the government has recognized a setback, but it consoles itself because the substance of its reform is so far intact – for now, because the Council will look into it later. There remains a widely heard question: since when has it been up to the judges to express their opinion on the economic situation?

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