Conventional rupture: “many abuses”, “diverted” device, too expensive … why the government wants to tackle it

After the holidays. In addition, the fifth week of paid vacation, the government is now attacking conventional ruptures. For example, The procedure created in 2008 is among the economy tracks of the Bayrou government. Consequently, which seeks to complete the 2026 budget and save 43.8 billion to reduce the public deficit next year.

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This measure is in the viewfinder because it is deemed too expensive for public finances. The procedure allowing an employer. an employee to separate such a success in mutual agreement that. if we only take the first quarter of 2025, 128,000 conventional ruptures were signed, details the Ministry of Labor. Against 88,000 ten years earlier.

Problem: the employee benefits, after breach, from compensation and especially unemployment benefits. A “comfortable exit door”, it is said on rue de Grenelle.

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For the Minister of Labor Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet. conventional ruptures are the subject of “many abuses”, because often “diverted” from its objective by companies as by employees.

On the employers side. some use it conventional rupture: “many abuses”, “diverted” new as disgusting dismissals. to avoid the constraints of a social plan: reclassification, training or financial contribution to the employment pool.

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On the employee side. the ministry evokes “disguised resignations”. some seeking to leave their post quickly while benefiting from unemployment insurance, without real desire to regain a short -term job. A point of view that Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet also argued on the set of “Hello! The morning TF1”: for the minister. the employee who calls on the system made the deliberate “choice” to leave his job. and therefore to lose his remuneration, unlike a dismissal.

Expensive

According to The echoesthe system would have cost France to work 10 billion euros in 2024. out of a total of 37 billion paid. To reduce “abuses”, the government therefore wants to close conventional rupture: “many abuses”, “diverted” new the tap. The objective is double: limit the cost of conventional ruptures for unemployment insurance and restrict access to this procedure.

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The ministry plans in particular to tighten the conditions of access to the system. to review the compensation rules (amount, deficiency period, duration). The subject will be put on the table during the next negotiations between social partners. This is not the first time that the conventional rupture has been pointed out. In 2023. Elisabeth Borne, then Prime Minister, had already wanted to reform the measure, arguing that she was harmful to full employment.