Reinforced control for forced labor:
the “Full employment” law adopted, FRANCE TRAVAIL is created
FRANCE TRAVAIL is the merger between Pôle emploi (which manages the unemployed), local missions (which manage unemployed young people) and Cap emploi (which manages unemployed people with disabilities). We add people to the RSA who are now obliged to also register with France Travail and presto! we put all the precarious in the same basket and everyone to the turbin! Once caught in the cracks of France Travail, in addition to undergoing reinforced controls, each unemployed person or RSA recipient will be required to sign an “engagement contract” which requires them to work a minimum of 15 hours. per week without receiving a salary. In other words, work for free.
This new law announces the government’s ambition: to increase the number of unnecessary meetings, to force people to do free work, to punish by suspending benefits, etc. This involves making access to benefits almost impossible (already 1/3 of people who would be entitled to RSA do not receive it) and forcing us to accept any job that pays a pittance.
Supposedly concerned about the fate of stay-at-home mothers, particularly single mothers (85% of single parents are women), this law proposes emancipation through unpaid work. With the creation of 200,000 childcare places for young children, they will also be able to benefit from a “commitment contract” for reinforced “support”. Their free domestic work is apparently not enough, women who already take on household tasks and child rearing without pay, will also have to contend with the minimum 15 hours of free and compulsory work. Otherwise, no benefits! It’s a double punishment. So much for emancipation.
Without RSA, without unemployment, there will be millions of precarious people who will have to accept anything to hope not to see the fridge empty. This reform is nothing less than a gift to businesses because it will have the effect of dragging down overall wages. While the State organizes the hunt for the poor, the rich benefit: golden parachute, CICE, tax shield, elimination of the ISF… and happily participate in producing nuisances until making this land unlivable.
“Precarious” is not a marginal category. Even less an identity. Being precarious is not defined by a level of income. Rather, it is having to be flexible and always available, feeling poorly protected (in the event of an accident or illness), being uncertain about the future. Precariousness is a form of exploitation that is becoming more widespread. This is the workforce that best matches the needs of businesses. It is also until now a situation which limits the defense capacities of workers. Temporary work, short contracts, self-employment, vacations, etc. undermine traditional forms of union struggles. Resistances need to be reinvented!
This is why on Thursday January 18 and Friday January 19, 2024 we carried out coordinated actions in several cities in France to put employees of Pôle emploi, Cap emploi, local missions, CAF, Maison Nord Emploi, etc. facing their responsibilities.
You who work in these institutions (there is still time to resign), you are responsible! To make things easier for you, the law has removed the constraint that was previously imposed on Pôle emploi: checking the legality of the offers proposed (salary, working hours, etc.). Now with France Travail, it’s a party for the bosses who can officially continue to happily piss on the labor code.
We call on all people who feel concerned to organize themselves into a collective of precarious workers and to invade as many of the services concerned by this law as possible (Pôle emploi, CAF, departmental services, etc.). They want us isolated, let’s regroup. Let us make our voice heard by all means. Everyone has their own style for harassing harassers, let’s take coordinated actions wherever possible!
2024-02-17 15:12:41
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