France: increase of the partial unemployment compensation in January 2009

Whereas announcements of partial unemployment are increasingly numerous, especially in the auto sector, the French social partners gathered against a background of economic crisis on December 15 to renegotiate the increase of compensation rates and the amount of minimum allowance for partial unemployment. The text should be signed in the coming weeks. (Ref. 081028)
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On November 25, 2008, as part of the plan for economic revival, the President of the French Republic called on the social partners to renegotiate without delay the compensation requirements for partial unemployment, which required amending the national interprofessional agreement of February 21, 1968. A single negotiation meeting led to a compromises limiting employees’ loss of earnings. This document will now be sent to unions for signature, to be enforced on January 1, 2009. Now, the conventi

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