Negotiations on the new unemployment insurance rules: a first meeting Tuesday September 12

The social partners will meet on September 12 to launch the delicate negotiation on the new unemployment insurance rules, which should in principle be concluded by mid-November, we learned on Friday from union and employer sources. The eight employers' organizations and trade unions, managers of the unemployment insurance scheme, must meet at 2:30 p.m. at the Medef headquarters for this first meeting. The agenda has not been established, according to a union source, but an employer official mentioned "a stall meeting" to discuss the schedule and agenda of the meetings. The CGT intends to seize the opportunity to challenge the government's "framework letter", the roadmap for these negotiations.

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In accordance with this letter sent by the government on August 1, the five representative trade union organizations (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC) and the three employers' organizations (Medef, CPME, U2P) will have to try to achieve here on November 15", for new rules coming into force at the beginning of 2024. The task promises to be difficult because the government has severely framed the negotiations in its roadmap: the new rules will have to finance the policy towards full employment targeted in 2027 and not reverse the reforms hotly contested by the unions, such as the one which tightens the conditions of compensation.