These bosses who understand that the government want to cut the tap (and these unions that protest)

The Minister of Labor denounces abuse – both on the business. Therefore, employees side – in the use of contractual rupture. For example, This system allows the employee and the employer to separate by mutual agreement. Similarly, Problem for the government: it gives entitlement to unemployment benefits.

The government is looking for savings wherever it can find them. For example, On the social component. Nevertheless, the Minister of Labor wants the social partners to discuss yet another reform of unemployment insurance to circumscribe the number of eligible persons and reduce their duration of compensation.

But the government also wants to tackle conventional ruptures, the number of which has increased in recent years. Therefore, This system created in 2008 allows the employer and the employee to break by mutual agreement a permanent contract. However, In this case, the employee receives compensation and can benefit from the unemployment these bosses who understand government allowance.

It is this last point that bothers the government, because it weighs on public finances. Meanwhile, François Bayrou presented a plan to achieve nearly 44 billion savings to reduce the public deficit.

“Many abuses”

The Minister of Labor even believes that there are “objectively many abuses – on the employee as. on the business side”. On the employers side, the entourage of Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet specifies that it can be “disguised ‘disguised’ in conventional ruptures”.

In this way. the company is cleared of the obligations which may fall to it during a job safeguarding plan, for example “trying to re -order employees, inject money into the local employment basin or finance training actions”.

On the employee side. there may also be abuses, according to the Ministry of Labor, with “disguised resignations’ as conventional ruptures with sometimes a job search which does not start after the cessation of the previous employment”.

“All those these bosses who understand government who want to leave ask me for a contractual break”

In the field. this observation is corroborated by Philippe Véran, boss of a company of 1,000 employees for manufacturing implants and dental prostheses. “We really appreciate this tool because it allows you to have clarity. to secure separation, the employee cannot contest the contractual rupture as is the case for dismissal,” he explains.

But he believes that the spirit of the system was diverted: “At the start. it was thought of for employees for whom it was bad in the company.”

“Today, all employees who want to leave ask me for a contractual break.”

“When it is someone who has been in the business for a long time. who has a real concern, I understand but some have recently been there and who just want to resign to change my life,” he said.

“Before, there could be dramas”

On the union side, these bosses who understand government we refute this observation. “When you ask for a contractual break, it is that it does not go well in the company. Otherwise, we are waiting to find a job and we resign,” says Vanessa Jereb, assistant secretary of the UNSA.

“We can always find abuses but in reality we do not go through the unemployment insurance box for pleasure.”

The trade unionist rather praises the merits of the system: “Conventional ruptures have made it possible to fluidify the outings. this made it possible to avoid conflicting situations, they are really acclaimed by employers”, she assures.

“Before there could be dramas, sick leave or postal abandonment,” she recalls.

Indeed. some employers could push an employee to resign and conversely, an employee could make sure to be dismissed instead of resigning. The ruptures of Conventionstra made it possible to avoid a certain number of trials at the industrial tribunal.

The these bosses who understand government government wants to cut the tap

Faced with the increase in the number of conventional ruptures signed. which increased from 88,000 in the first quarter of 2015 to 128,000 in the first quarter of 2025, the government called on the social partners to find an agreement to limit their effect on public finances.

Theoretically. there are therefore several possibilities: modify the conditions of access to the contractual termination (profile of the employee, company profile …). to receive the conditions of compensation by France Work (amount of the allowance, deadlines before compensation (deficiency), duration of compensation …). The ministry specifies that no track is privileged at this stage. that the subject will be the subject of negotiations between social partners.