2024-01-30 17:32:20
As he had suggested, Gabriel Attal gave a significant place to work in his general policy declaration, this Tuesday at the National Assembly, with the reiterated objective of achieving full employment by the end of the five-year term. And as work must always pay better than unemployment, he insisted, the Prime Minister affirmed his desire to track down everything which in his eyes constitutes “inactivity traps”.
“Fighting inactivity traps means re-examining our model,” he declared, with his sights set on what constitutes the strongest announcement in the speech in this area: the elimination of the allowance of specific solidarity (ASS), which unemployed people at the end of their rights receive “and which allows, without working, to validate quarters of retirement”. “But retirement must always remain the fruit of work,” he argued.
Switch to departments
The beneficiaries will switch to the RSA according to an unspecified timetable, which will cause a transfer of burden to the departments, deciphers a good expert on the file. As a reminder, the 2024 budget included 1.65 billion euros in commitment authorizations and payment credits on the SSA for a workforce of 245,985 beneficiaries on annual average over the financial year.
At the RSA, former ASS beneficiaries will then enter the France Travail reform regime: better support in exchange for the obligation to be subject to 15 hours of activity, with exceptions. However, not everyone will be affected, the conditions for eligibility for RSA in terms of income being stricter than those for the specific solidarity allowance.
Beyond the case of the ASS, which risks causing a strong reaction from the unions, this desire to act on inactivity traps involves, or will require, a new takeover of the unemployment insurance system in its entirety. totality. “We must go further in the reform of unemployment insurance,” warned Gabriel Attal, while the Philippe then Borne governments imposed on the unions (with the tacit approval of employers) a tightening of the rules for calculating unemployment. daily allowance, the reduction after six months for high incomes or even the reduction in the duration of compensation depending on the economic situation.
The government expects an “ambitious result” from the inter-professional negotiation on seniors, which must notably ratify the shift of the maximum compensation duration limits by two years to take into account the increase from 62 to 64 years of the legal age of departure retired.
“But the economic situation is changing and because we are maintaining our objective of full employment […] I will be extremely attentive to the evolution of the financial trajectory of unemployment insurance. If the latter deviates, I will not hesitate, as the law allows, to ask the social partners to put the work back on the profession on the basis of a new framework letter with very clear ambitions: to encourage ever more resumption of employment without any taboos,” warned the Prime Minister.
Unlock certain professions
For Gabriel Attal, the quest for full employment also requires “unlocking certain professions such as trustees or online sales of medicines by pharmacies”. Announced in the spring, a bill to this effect will make it possible to see things more clearly. We must undoubtedly see in this the influence of Renaissance MP Marc Ferracci, who has been campaigning for this for a long time.
Another project announced, but which will not come until after the summer (which gives time for the social partners to finish their negotiations, and for the executive to include the result in the law in the event of agreement): a new stage of the reform of labor law with the “clear” objective of “liberating the energies of our VSEs and SMEs, considerably simplifying their daily lives and allowing them to negotiate certain rules directly, company by company”. Here again a reform pushed by Marc Ferracci who pleads for small companies or companies less than five years old to be able to deviate from the collective agreements of their branches.
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