Cross border workers seeking jobs in Geneva may have to accept lower paid positions or risk losing their unemployment benefits.
A decision by the French Labour Office will force job seekers to accept a role which pays an acceptable French level salary, not a higher Swiss rate.
The aim is to get cross border workers back into the workplace faster – they tend to take longer to find a new job.
The French government spends EUR 800m on unemployment benefits to cross border workers who have not been paying into the French system.
France is looking to change the rules which currently means frontaliers pay social security in the country they work in, but benefits paid by the country they live in.
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