Already divided by two in 2017 in Macron’s “work” orders, the government plans to reduce the limitation period again to seize the industrial tribunal and challenge a dismissal. Brought back to one year in 2017, this new period would be increased to four or even six months, reports BFM Business, which was able to consult an orientation document “relating to the modernization of the labor market and the quality of work”.
This proposal, which aims to align with the average of the deadlines practiced by our European neighbors (7 months, with strong disparities: 48 months in Iceland and 15 days in Denmark) is part of a package presented to the unions CFDT and CFTC, also expected at the start of the school year to negotiate a new hardening of unemployment insurance.
After the establishment in 2017 of a compensation ceiling in the event of abusive dismissal, the objective of this measure is to continue to protect employers in front of their (ex) employees.
This while in ten years, non -economic layoffs, (serious or heavy faults and the anticipated CDD) have doubled, standing at nearly 900,000 in 2024, for 82,000 economic layoffs that same year. A ratio of 1 for 11 which, ten years earlier was 1 for 3, according to data from the statistical organization of the Ministry of Labor.