Employment & Labor

#2026-214Decree No. 2026-214 on Minimum Unemployment Benefit Duration

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This decree establishes a minimum duration of 152 calendar days for unemployment benefits for specific job seekers, particularly those whose eligibility is based solely on certain types of contracts mentioned in the French labor code. It aims to ensure that qualified individuals receive adequate support during their job search period. The decree is to be executed by the Minister of Labor and Solidarity and will be published officially.

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Key Changes

  • Establishment of a minimum unemployment benefit duration of 152 days for specific job seekers
  • Applicable to individuals with eligibility based on certain types of contracts
  • Execution overseen by the Minister of Labor and Solidarity

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Set minimum unemployment benefit duration to 152 calendar days for job seekers mentioned in the second sentence of article L. 5422-2-2 of the French labor code

French unemployment benefit administrators (Pôle emploi and equivalent bodies)
operational
high

Set minimum unemployment benefit duration to 152 calendar days for job seekers whose affiliation duration is exclusively justified by one or more contracts mentioned in article 3° of articles L. 1242-2 and L. 1251-6 of the French labor code

French unemployment benefit administrators (Pôle emploi and equivalent bodies)
operational
high

Set minimum unemployment benefit duration to 152 calendar days for job seekers whose affiliation duration is exclusively justified by contracts mentioned in article L. 718-4 of the French rural and maritime code

French unemployment benefit administrators (Pôle emploi and equivalent bodies)
operational
high

Apply the 152-day minimum benefit duration only when job seekers have benefited from a modulation of previous activity conditions allowing the opening or reloading of unemployment insurance rights

French unemployment benefit administrators (Pôle emploi and equivalent bodies)
operational
high

Publish this decree in the Journal officiel de la République française (Official Journal of the French Republic)

Minister of Labor and Solidarity
disclosure

Affected Parties

Job seekers eligible for unemployment benefitsMinister of Labor and Solidarity

Tags

unemployment benefits,labor law,France