Official name

The official acronym was UNEDIC, but it was commonly written Unedic. However, the acronym was sometimes written UNÉDIC or Unédic. From 2009, the official name is Unédic. While there is no accent on the word "emploi", there is an accent in "Unédic" because of the apostrophe just before the word in the complete name, in French.

Until 2009, Unedic was closely associated with the ASSEDIC

ASSEDIC

Assédic is the partial acronym of "Association pour l’emploi dans l’industrie et le commerce" . Created in 1958, it was a French agency which collected and paid unemployment insurance contributions. It was associated to the UNEDIC agency, which set the amount of the contributions...

 (or Assedic). Both agencies were often referred to as "Unedic-Assedic" or "Assedic-Unedic" (with multiple variations on accents and capital letters).

Former missions

The Unedic was an agency under governmental control. It was managed by the "social partners", which are both representatives of trade-unions and representatives of companies leaders. There are six trade-unions officially recognized by the government, which are CGT

Confédération générale du travail

The General Confederation of Labour is a national trade union center, the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions.It is the largest in terms of votes , and second largest in terms of membership numbers.Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995-96 The General...

, CFDT, FO

Force Ouvrière

The General Confederation of Labor - Workers' Force is one of the five major union federations in France. In terms of following, it is the third behind the CGT and the CFDT....

, CFE-CGC and CFTC

Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens

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, and three patronal organizations, Medef, CGPME et UPA. Representatives of both groups have equal power to manage the agency, as is the case for many other governmental agencies.

The agency used set the amount of unemployment contributions (paid by a part of salaries). It was affiliated to the Assedic agencies, which collected and paid the contributions. In 2008, it employed almost 15,000 people.

Current mission

On 1 January 2009, the agency turned into an association led by social partners. The government is not implicated, the agency is totally independent. However, it continues to set the amounts of social contributions and employment benefits.

External links

• Official website of the current independent agency Unédic
• Pôle emploi new agency resulting of the merger ANPE-Unedic