"It is necessary to go further" in the reform of unemployment insurance, according to Olivier Dussopt

While the executive has set itself the goal of achieving full employment by 2027, i.e. an unemployment rate of around 5% against 7,3% currently, Mr. Dussopt assures that this objective is "possible" thanks to the reforms of the RSA and unemployment insurance.

“There is an urgency: that the unemployment insurance reform, decided in 2019 and implemented in 2021 due to the Covid, see its rules extended. They expire on November 1, 2022”, poses the minister.

This will go through a text of law presented at the start of the school year, which will be the first on the menu of Parliament on the return from the summer break from the beginning of October.

The minister explains that the government intends to extend these controversial rules "to allow this reform to continue to produce its positive effects and to think about the next step".

“It is necessary to go further,” he continues. “Our compensation rules must take into account the situation of the labor market, as does, for example, Canada. When things are going well, we tighten the rules and, when things are bad, we relax them”, he explains, taking up a campaign commitment from Emmanuel Macron.

"We will address this subject from the start of the school year with the social partners", adds Mr. Dussopt.

"Areas can be opened, on the duration of compensation and its decreasing nature. These parameters will be discussed within the framework of the consultation", he underlines.

Regarding the assessment of the transition to "a good situation" or a "degraded situation", he judges that it "must be objective". This will pass “either by criteria, such as a number of consecutive quarters with an improvement in employment, or by a committee which gives us an opinion”, the methods not being “not stopped”.

Asked about the transformation of Pôle emploi into France Travail, the minister refutes a cosmetic name change and affirms, without going into details, that this will lead to "simplifying and better coordinating the actors (local authorities, private actors, etc.)" .

As for the RSA, which the president said he wanted to allocate on the condition of carrying out 15 or 20 hours of "effective activity which allows integration", Mr. Dussopt indicates that "the new modalities will be put in place as quickly as possible ".

On pensions, he finally indicates that the consultation "will begin after the meeting of the National Council for Refoundation, in September", ensuring that "the summer of 2023 is the horizon for the entry into force of the first effects of the reform".