Unemployment insurance: Attal defends a reform which “encourages activity” and tackles “the Mélenchon-Le Pen axis”

After the announcement, he defends his project. Visiting a L’Oréal factory in Rambouillet (Yvelines) this Thursday, Gabriel Attal once again justified his unemployment benefit reform planpresented this Wednesday evening on TF1.

The Prime Minister then mentioned his desire for a new “global” reform of unemployment insurancewith, as avenues, a reduction in the duration of compensation from 18 to 12 months maximum, the possibility of affecting the minimum time worked to benefit from unemployment, or even action on the “level” of compensation.

This unemployment compensation reform project “encourages activity”, assures the Prime Minister, the day after these announcements. He does not call into question the model of support for job seekers, according to him.

“Obviously we can end up with a hard blow, this is not only normal but it is fortunate in France that there is a model of solidarity,” he declared, alongside the minister of Labor Catherine Vautrin. But “I deeply believe that we can have a less expensive and more effective social model,” insisted Gabriel Attal, adding: “The more people you have working, the more revenue you have for our public policies. »

Attal attacks the opposition, “all allocations” party

The government is looking for savings after the public deficit skidded to 5.5% of GDP in 2023, according to INSEE. Or 15.8 billion euros more than the government’s forecasts, which excludes increasing taxes.

The announcement of a reform of unemployment benefit triggered a wave of criticism from the opposition. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the RN deputies, denounced “a scam which has only one goal: to pick the pockets of the French to replenish the State accounts which are in deficit because of incompetence of the government “.