Translation of "Prestation d'assurance chômage " (French → English) :

1. By way of derogation from Article 65, a wholly unemployed person who, as a frontier worker, has most recently completed periods of insurance as a self-employed person or periods of self-employment recognised for the purposes of granting unemployment benefits in a Member State other than his/her Member State of residence and whose Member State of residence has submitted notification that there is no possibility for any category of self-employed persons to be covered by an unemployment benefits system of that Member State, shall register with and make himself/herself available to the employment services in the Member State in which he/s ...[+++]he pursued his/her last activity as a self-employed person and, when he/she applies for benefits, shall continuously adhere to the conditions laid down under the legislation of the latter Member State. The wholly unemployed person may, as a supplementary step, make himself/herself available to the employment services of the Member State of residence.

Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 should be amended by inserting a new provision that ensures that a self-employed frontier worker who becomes wholly unemployed receives benefits if he/she has completed periods of insurance as a self-employed person or periods of self-employment recognised for the purposes of granting unemployment benefits in the competent Member State and if no unemployment benefits system covering self-employed persons exists in the Member State of residence.

An unemployed person who is covered by a special unemployment scheme for civil servants, who is partially or wholly unemployed, and who, during his last employment, was residing in the territory of a Member State other than the competent State, shall receive the benefits under the special unemployment scheme for civil servants in accordance with the provisions of the legislation of the competent Member State as if he were residing in the territory of that Member State.

(1) Concerning employment incentives (labour supply channel), measures implemented by Member States have focussed on: (i) limiting the amount (Spain) or the length (Germany) of the unemployment benefit that can be perceived; (ii) unifying the unemployment insurance with the social assistance benefits; (iii) giving incentives for young people (Finland) or for new hires covering youths and adults over 25 who had not been employed on a permanent basis (Italy); (iv) making conditional activation complements (subsistence allowance) to job search and participation in active ...[+++] measures after a certain period of unemployment (Finland); and (v) using in-work benefits, i.e., employment conditional tax-credits and benefits and other provisions of similar purpose.

When discussing these different labour market transitions, the following types of benefit schemes are considered: (i) unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance; (ii) minimum income guarantee and other forms of social assistance (including housing benefits); (iii) employment-conditional benefits and other similar provisions; (iv) support for families and parents (family benefits, maternity, paternity and parental leave schemes, child-care benefits and provision, elderly care and care for disabled people); (v) early retirem ...[+++]ent; and (vi) support for sickness, invalidity and work-related injuries.

1.2. A portion of the contributions levied for workers whose period of contribution is too short to give entitlement to unemployment benefit in Switzerland under 1.1 shall be refunded to their States of origin in accordance with the provisions of 1.3. in order to contribute towards the cost of benefits provided to these workers in the event of full unemployment; these workers shall then have no entitlement to benefit in the event of their being fully unemployed in Switzerland.