Bill Transposing Amendment No. 3 of 25 February 2026 to the Unemployment Insurance Agreement of 10 November 2023
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This bill transposes into French law the provisions of Amendment No. 3, signed on 25 February 2026 by social partners (trade unions and employer organizations), to the unemployment insurance framework agreement of 10 November 2023. The core measure reduces the duration of unemployment benefits for workers who leave their job through a 'rupture conventionnelle individuelle' — a mutually agreed-upon termination, distinct from resignation or dismissal. The rationale behind the reform is that workers who voluntarily negotiate their exit from employment — as opposed to those dismissed against their will — should receive a proportionally shorter compensation period, reflecting their greater degree of agency in the termination decision. This modulation downward targets specifically individual mutual termination cases, not collective redundancies or layoffs. By transposing a social partner agreement rather than imposing a unilateral government reform, the bill follows the standard French legislative process for labor market changes negotiated via collective bargaining. Parliament is being asked to give legal force to what the social partners have already agreed upon at the negotiating table.
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Key Changes
- Unemployment benefit duration is reduced for workers who exit employment via 'rupture conventionnelle individuelle' (individual mutual termination agreement)
- The reduction applies only to individual mutual terminations — not to dismissals, layoffs, or collective redundancy plans (PSE)
- The modulation was agreed by social partners on 25 February 2026 as Amendment No. 3 to the November 2023 unemployment insurance protocol
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Obligations
What this law requires
Reduce the duration of unemployment benefits for workers whose employment contract ended through 'rupture conventionnelle individuelle' (mutually agreed-upon termination)
Apply the downward modulation of unemployment benefit duration only to cases of individual mutual termination ('rupture conventionnelle individuelle'), excluding collective redundancies and dismissals
Implement the provisions of Amendment No. 3 of 25 February 2026 to the Unemployment Insurance Agreement of 10 November 2023 into French national law