The governing bodies of the CGT must debate on 6 April

Unions and employers are arrived Friday on a draft agreement on a new agreement of unemployment insurance for the period 2011-2013, which guard intact architecture of the convention in courts, was learned from trade union sources.

At the end of lengthy negotiations at the headquarters of the Medef and after a concession from the employers (Medef, CGPME, UPA) on the conditions of a decline in contributions to the Unedic, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CFE - CGC negotiators indicated that they would issue a positive opinion to their organizations.

The CGT, which has never signed an agreement of unemployment insurance, was more reserved, holding the text "unbalanced in favour of employers". The governing bodies of the CGT must debate on 6 April. The project, which covers the period from June 1, 2011 to 31 December 2013, "we seems acceptable," said Gabrielle Simon of the CFTC. "In a context very complicated and a little ideological, arrived at a text that is not the text of the century, but does not reduce the rights of the unemployed and even improves them for some" as seasonal workers and the disabled, said Lawrence Berger of the CFDT. Stéphane Lardy of FO is is commended that the unions "have been back on the decline of contributions employers." "Things were obtained, an improvement of rights for a certain number," a - t - he stressed. "With this convention, it has improved (the previous) without changing the architecture," said Marie-Françoise Leflon the CFE - CGC.

The principles in force since 2009 as "a day contributed, a day compensation", are maintained, as unions wanted. The main point on which the negotiations started on January 24 great was the decline in contributions required by employers upon return to the benefits of the Unedic. Employers has finally agreed to link the decline in contributions to the reduction of the debt accumulated the Unedic, as the claimed the unions. Previously, it required a decrease if the accounts of the Unedic enlisted recipient during two successive semesters, of at least EUR 500 million per semester. And this, regardless of the level of total debt, estimated at 11 billion at the end of 2011.

The project agreement retains the status of the two semesters surplus of 500 million but "on condition that the level of debt of the system is equal or less than the equivalent of 1.5 months of contributions calculated on the average of the last twelve months". Either some four billion euros, according to Union estimates. This clause will not stop to 31 December 2013 but will remain in force until 2016 at the request of employers, according to the project. These conditions could be met in 2015, according to projections. According to projections of Unedic, with a growth of between 1.6 and 1.8 between 2012 and 2014, annual accounts redeviendraient positive as soon as 2013 and debt would decrease to $ 6.7 billion late 2014.

Other difficult topics were however excluded from the negotiations and carried forward to the consideration of a "political" joint working group should be set up after the agreement.