It was one of the campaign promises of Emmanuel Macron: create an “unemployment insurance,” universal which would cover all assets, and not only to employees, and to “facilitate transitions from one status to another”.
A year and a half later, there is clearly not. The independent in the broad sense (and in particular the autoentrepreneurs) will have a right to unemployment benefits in the event of a failure professional, but in terms ultrarestrictives.
“We will allow all workers to be entitled to unemployment insurance. Artisans, independent merchants, entrepreneurs, liberal professions and farmers will have, as employees, to such protection”
Provided for in the law professional Future passed at the beginning of August, this law will apply in the year 2019, once the ongoing negotiations on the new convention on unemployment insurance buckled and will benefit… 40 000 people.
A social charter to come
Concretely, the self-employed will be eligible for a compensation lump sum of € 800 per month – the amount will be fixed by decree for one semester maximum. And this only in the event of a liquidation or receivership, which is very rare …
