Compensation for resigners: the Macron measure begins to take off

Remove the obstacles to retraining by facilitating risk-taking. This was the objective of one of the key measures of the bill For the freedom to choose one’s professional future of 2018, namely to open unemployment rights to resigners. Promised by candidate Macron during the 2017 campaign, this unprecedented measure had raised fears of an explosion in Unédic’s spending before the social partners limited access.

Result: 65,200 people have benefited from it since its implementation, at the end of 2019, for a cumulative amount of allowances paid of around 150 million, compared to 40 billion per year, according to figures obtained by “Les Echos” from Pole employment or Unédic.