2023-07-05 10:06:23
The chapter on Iranian visas is closed, but the time has not yet come to calm within Vivaldi. On Monday, Alexander De Croo crystallized some tensions with a note on labor market reform as part of the work on tax reform. It proposes in particular the obligation for the long-term unemployed to accept a job in shortage. An idea that goes very badly on the left where some are wondering about Alexander De Croo’s position one year from the elections: is he still Prime Minister or has he already entered the campaign to defend the interests of the Liberals?
Drafting 05-07-23, 12:06 Last update: 12:27 Source: Het Nieuwsblad, La Libre, Le Soir, RTL Info
Holidays, I forget everything. The summer break is likely to do good to the Vivaldi where the temperature has been steadily rising in recent weeks. Just days after the Iranian visa saga ended, Alexander De Croo dropped a memo and a new source of tension on the table. The object of contention? A measure aimed at the long-term unemployed to accept a job in short supply.
Those “who have refused more than two offers of employment or training for shortage jobs will be assimilated to people who are in a situation of third negative evaluation”, specify our colleagues from Le Soir. A status that can lead to the loss of benefits.
The announcement is not surprising. The Liberals have never hidden the fact that in their eyes tax reform could not be conceived without including the labor market. The MR recalled this again during a press conference on June 8, a few days before the first discussions in kern, by putting forward proposals such as the limitation of unemployment benefits in time.
Forcing people to accept a job or cutting unemployment benefits are punitive measures that do not work.
Gilles Vanden Burre, Ecolo MP
“Forcing people to accept a job or cutting unemployment benefits are punitive measures that don’t work. We must put the package on training, especially in trades in shortage. Even the employers say it …”, estimates the Ecolo deputy, Gilles Vanden Burre, on Twitter.
Sander Loones
@SanderLoones
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“Meanwhile, 13,268 positions remain vacant in my province. Is it because of the language barrier? No, there are ten times more French people working in West Flanders than people from Hainaut. The reason? The De Croo government does not reform. You let businesses and people down,” replied his N-VA counterpart, Sander Loones.
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For its part, the PS rebels and assimilates the Prime Minister’s proposal to “a declaration of war.” “Is he still Prime Minister or only full-time president of the Liberals?” Asks a socialist deputy in the columns of the Nieuwsblad. A question that has come up regularly in recent weeks. On the left, it is estimated that Alexander De Croo tends to abandon his prime minister’s chair and put on another “blue” work.
“Once again, the Prime Minister is not respecting his own government agreement,” said Paul Magnette in particular when Alexander De Croo had expressed the wish to begin “an environmental pause”. A few days earlier, at the occasion of the festivities of May 1, it is (already) an exit on unemployment which had been pointed out by the president of the PS: “When one is Prime Minister, one does not oppose workers and unemployed”.
As a reminder, the head of the federal government had welcomed the previous day the proposal of the Flemish socialists of Vooruit to activate the long-term unemployed more and to abolish unemployment benefits for those who do not accept a basic job after two years without activity. . A subject that therefore returns to the table a few weeks later.
Its stated support for Hadja Lahbib (MR) during the Irangate storm does not tend to reverse the trend, on the contrary. “He appeared as a Prime Minister with two different attitudes on two similar files, those of Hadja Lahbib and Sarah Schlitz. He agreed to put his name in the motion pure and simple. He appeared above all as an official of the Open Vld more than as a Prime Minister, political scientist Pascal Delwit recently analyzed on the set of RTL Info.
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