Will the conditioning of the RSA be enough to encourage its beneficiaries to return to the path of active life? The government seems convinced. Elisabeth Borne confirmed on Saturday, during her trip to Reunion, that the France Labor bill will provide for many ” sanctions ».
End of April, the Prime Minister had confirmed on France 2 the presidential commitment to intensive support for RSA recipients, up to 15 to 20 hours per week of integration, on the model of the Youth Engagement Contract (CEJ). « It is not a question of making them work without paying them, it is a question of allowing them to discover trades, to train. That’s the 15 to 20 hours of activity we’re talking about “, she had specified.
« We must continue to aim for the levers to allow everyone to return to a job. This is all the more important in a context where we know that there are many companies looking to recruit and who say they can’t. “said the Matignon tenant during a press briefing.
Of the ” peripheral brakes » to be paid in advance
« At the same time, a bill will be presented in early June to the Council of Ministers. We want to give ourselves all the skills to get the local missions, the county council, the region, which is responsible for training job seekers, to work together. We are mobilizing all our forces to best support RSA beneficiaries “, she continued.
Et « indeed, I can confirm that in the bill, there will indeed be the possibility of suspending, for a short period perhaps to start, in any case there will also be a system of sanctions, as soon as we have accomplished, on our side, our share of responsibility, that is to say that we will have put the beneficiary of the RSA in a position to follow the course that we have proposed to him ». According to the Court of Auditors, a beneficiary of the RSA out of two does not currently sign a reciprocal commitment contract and the proposed actions, ” very weak (less than two per contract), do little to help the beneficiary ” in a concrete way ».
Achieve full employment
On the deadline for the implementation of sanctions for RSA beneficiaries who do not diligently follow their support path towards employment, Elisabeth Borne remained vague. This possibility of sanction will intervene as soon as ” we will have solved the other preliminary problems “, THE ” peripheral brakes to return to work, she said, citing in particular the problem of childcare.
Through the France Travail bill presented by the summer, the government wants to reorganize the employment and integration services, and France Travail is intended to succeed Pôle emploi. The implementation of France Travail will be done gradually by 2027 but its creation will be effective at the beginning of 2024. Emmanuel Macron is betting on this transformation – alongside social negotiations on a ” work life pact by the end of the year – to achieve full employment, i.e. an unemployment rate of around 5% in 2027 (compared to 7.2% in the 4th quarter of 2022).
Unions received at Matignon
On the third day of her trip to the island, the Prime Minister visited the Pôle emploi agency in the town of Saint-Leu-les Trois Bassins. There, she signed the State-department agreement on the France Travail experimentation with the president of the department, Cyrille Melchior. Reunion is one of the 18 departments concerned, the only one overseas. The department of Seine-Saint-Denis withdrew from the list, explaining that it refused the logic of ” aid conditionality ” of the government.
A line shared by several unions, promising heated discussions with the executive. The Prime Minister receives the social partners next week. Asked at the end of April about a possible meeting at Matignon, Sophie Binet had notably cited the conditionality of the payment of the RSA as one of the subjects ” divisive ». The Prime Minister sent these invitations on May 5, for talks without “ specific agenda ».
(With AFP)
2023-05-13 22:19:31
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