ABVV wants an exception to measure: « Unemployment limitation threatens to meet 10,000 female people over 55 »
Competent minister David Clarinval. – © Belga
The ABVV sets a stricter exception for people over 55 in the limitation of unemployment benefits over time. As a result, according to the socialist trade union, around 10,000 women aged 55 and older threaten to be excluded from unemployment benefits, because they worked part -time.
The limitation of unemployment benefits up to 2 years is the « queen piece » of her plans for the government, Prime Minister Bart De Wever said last month after the Easter agreement was beaten. The federal government and the federal states are considering the consultation committee on the limitation of unemployment benefits over time on Wednesday afternoon.
The ABVV will already come up with additional arguments in its opposition to the measure on Wednesday. For example, the red trade union refers to the exception for people over 55, for whom the duration of the unemployment benefit is therefore not limited. The Coalition Agreement did establish a condition: 55s of the over with a half-time career (with at least 156 days worked per year) of 30 years are not excluded. That will then be 35 years from 2030.
But according to ABVV, Minister of Work David Clarinval (MR) continues. « A stricter calculation method is used: it must now be a full -time career of 30/35 years, » Dixit the trade union. « Everyone who could not build a full-time career is excluded from the unemployment insurance. A 55-year-old who worked 4/5th for 30 years will never meet these conditions. » The conditions will be achieved by few, it sounds.
According to the trade union, there are an estimated 24,000 people of the long -term job seekers 55 years or older. « Of these are around 10,000 women … who will soon be in sight of the exclusions. » For the trade union, the government continues to miss by saying that people over 55 are not in sight.
