Unemployment for the independent: hopes to be showered

Because a reform generous would be extremely costly, the right to compensation for own-account workers should be reduced to a trickle.

The time of the campaign of the candidate Macron, the subject has been fantasizing more than one: the right to unemployment benefits for self-employed workers. A few months later, it is necessary, for many, come back down to Earth.

According to The Echo, the government would seriously consider one of the options mentioned in the pre-report that the general Inspectorate of social affairs (Igas) has made to the government. Namely, a fixed allowance collected over a period of six months to a year, 700 to 800 euros monthly, which is slightly more than the RSA, which amounted to 545,45 € for a single person.

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the opening of The rights would be subject to the condition that the director has carried out his activity for at least a year or two, and that the company has been the subject of a winding up by the court.

The winding up by the court, this step almost unknown micro-entrepreneurs

Interviewed on BFM at the end of November, the minister of Labour Muriel Pénicaud, has suggested that the liberal professions are excluded from the new device. The main stakeholders should not take umbrage, them which, from the beginning, say they are opposed to a right to unemployment benefits.

The micro-entrepreneurs engaged in their activity as an accessory, would, them, not more, not concerned. It is quite logical, their status as an employee or retiree, allowing them to obtain coverage.

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The micro-entrepreneurs, "principal", therefore, may, for their part, benefit from the device, to condition do not have only "no longer working" and closes their structure, but have gone through a liquidation. Today, however, the micro-entrepreneurs represent only 1% of liquidations! Reason: they go into debt rarely (condition sine qua non for the liquidation) in the framework of their activity. Not only do they exert the most often in the services sector, which excludes the purchase of an expensive stock, machines,..., but their personal wealth and professional being one, they do not commit themselves on a slippery slope.

"people will always find a breach"

Then, one could see hordes of micro-entrepreneurs go into debt just to be able to pass through the box winding up? "You can imagine people don't pay their past contributions to Urssaf, just to put themselves in this situation, in effect," admits Grégoire Leclercq, president of the Federation of auto-entrepreneurs.

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"If that is not it, this will be something else, confirms Bruno Christian, of the Institute of social protection. People will always find a loophole in that rush. Like when, a few years ago, young women who never had any activity were in the regime of self-contractor, just to get the maternity benefits." A drift corrected rapidly...

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For the specialist, the government "has no choice other than to stand firmly behind the opinion of the Eesc, according to which it is necessary to limit the right to unemployment benefits to more precarious, and, in particular, the workers of platforms". Not to withdraw, but to find the equation of the "least worst" to avoid the fiscal fiasco. This is the challenge perilous troops of Emmanuel Macron.