If François Fillon and Emmanuel Macron displayed their desire to profoundly alter the rights and duties of the unemployed, other candidates such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen or Benoît Hamon dodging the question.

The new agreement on unemployment insurance concluded the 28 of march between the social partners will result in an agreement governing the rules of job seekers in the next three years. Provided, of course, that the document be approved by the government. In view of the technical time required, there is a strong chance that this is the next team in place that takes care of it.

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many uncertainties still remain on the topic, several presidential candidates wish to revise deeply the rights of the unemployed and the role of employers and trade unions in the management of Unédic. The latter, moreover, were keen to stress their “sense of responsibility” at the conclusion of the agreement of march, well aware that the project of Emmanuel Macron or François Fillon could reduce their powers. And do not go in the direction that they would like to.

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François Fillon advocated degressivity of the unemployment benefits

This is notably the case with the candidate of the Republicans. François Fillon wants to put in place the degressivity of unemployment benefits. In other words, the amount of the allowances to the unemployed would decrease over a period of months. He has so far not clarified the levels, but this hypothesis was rejected by most of the trade unions during the last trading…

The degression has already been introduced in France in 1992 and divided. Some experts believe that it slows down the return to employment, but a majority of French people said he was, however, favourable to this track a year ago.

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The candidate LR also intends to require job-seekers to “motivate” any refusal of an offer of work. If an unemployed person refuses more of an offer of employment and fails to justify his reasons, he will be “punished”. To encourage mobility, François Fillon suggests that job seekers who would find themselves “outside of their basin of life” are “haves” on the lists of requests for access to social housing.

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On the management accounts of Unédic, he wanted the social partners to develop a (new?) agreement “on the full recovery of the accounts of the unemployment insurance” prior to the fall of 2017. A challenge when one knows that the regime has more than 30 billion euros of debt, and that employers and unions have managed to produce a text that included almost $ 1 billion in savings per year after long discussions. Failing that, it ensures that the State “will reform itself the management of the unemployment insurance system.”

Emmanuel Macron: the more rights but also more duties

The other candidate Running! is without a doubt the one that means the most to reform the unemployment insurance. This latter would lose its very nature of insurance to become a “universal right”. So far, the employees make contributions and thus open up rights commensurate that protect them in case of loss of employment. Emmanuel Macron wants to do a right open to all, including to the employees who have resigned (every five years) and the self-employed with more than 5 years of activity.

Emmanuel Macron would remove the unemployment contribution for employees and “nationaliserait” Unédic. Exit the social partners? A priori, the State would define the amounts of compensation, the duration of compensation and the management of its resources. The agreement of 28 march would not prevent the applicant to conduct the project. “What Emmanuel Macron door, it is a wider reform of the unemployment insurance, so there is no reason to renounce it or to influence it,” said Jean Pisani-Ferry, in charge of his economic program.

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These changes result in real changes for the unemployed: the unemployed become “universal right” would also be accompanied by “homework”. Job seekers should have to submit to a skills assessment as soon as they arrive at the job center in order to direct them towards a training “really learning”, which he does not specify the specifics.

Finally, Emmanuel Macron wants to harden the follow-up of the unemployed, particularly after the training by being forced to “accept offers”. So, it was Impossible “to refuse more than two offers at a decent,” says the candidate. By “decent”, he hears the offers “of which the salary would not be less than 20-25% of that of the former position.”

Jean-Luc Mélenchon promises “an enforceable right to the job”

As Emmanuel Macron, the candidate of the France Insubordinate wants the right to unemployment benefits is open to employees who have resigned. It does not affect neither to the management nor to the nature of the system, but nevertheless intends to create a “professional social security” that would ensure “continuity of income even in case of loss of employment” and that would indemnify from the first day any person registered with Pôle emploi. It does not, however, what minimum contribution would be necessaryre to be affiliated to the unemployment insurance.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon also intends to create “an enforceable right to employment”, for the long-term unemployed. In the clear, an unemployed worker at the end of the rights could come back to the State and ask him to find “a job with their qualification on a mission of general interest”.

“The compensation from the unemployment benefit continues until such employment is proposed by the State,” according to the program of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Benoît Hamon wants to protect the independent

A little in the line of this proposed by Emmanuel Macron, the socialist candidate intends to allow entrepreneurs and self-employed workers benefit from a “protection against unemployment.” But he does not propose to revise the model in effect of unemployment insurance

The payment of the universal Income of the life (STREET) does not roll back the unemployment benefits, but would accrue to them. The amount of this STREET would vary according to income.

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