2023-09-24 14:33:21
Creation of France Travail, strengthening of monitoring of RSA beneficiaries… The deputies begin their return this Monday with the examination of the bill “for full employment” denounced by part of the opposition.
This is the inaugural text of a tense return to the National Assembly: the bill “for full employment” arrives this Monday in the hemicycle, under the announced blows of the left which denounces a “stigma “most precarious.
Reducing the unemployment rate to 5% by 2027 (compared to more than 7% today) is the emblematic objective of the project carried by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, adopted in July at first reading by the Senate. In the National Assembly, its examination in committee gave rise to the first battles: the oppositions, divided on the substance of the text, jointly castigated the “unacceptable” conditions of the debate, after an extension late in the night from Wednesday to THURSDAY.
The bill proposes to better coordinate the multiple players in the public employment service, with the keystone being a Pôle Emploi renamed “France Travail” (even if the Senate wants to maintain the current name of the operator). And a network organization to facilitate the sharing of information. At a time when some companies are struggling to recruit, the priority is to better target people furthest from employment, in particular RSA beneficiaries, to offer them “more personalized and more intensive support” towards employment. .
“Free work”?
These beneficiaries, like the young people monitored by local missions, would now be automatically placed on the list of job seekers, all of whom would be invited to sign an “engagement contract”. The new “duties” provided for in this contract bristle on the left, while LR wishes on the contrary to toughen them.
The Senate, where the right is in the majority, has thus written in black and white the obligation to carry out “15 to 20 hours” of activities per week. But the government insists on maintaining a certain flexibility for people who have been “away from employment for a long time”. In any case, “it is obviously not a question of free work, nor of compulsory volunteering, but of integration and training activities to enable a return to employment”, insisted Olivier Dussopt in committee.
The Nupes deputies (LFI, PS, communists and ecologists), who intend to table “a motion of rejection” at the start of the debates on Monday, are also up in arms against the new “suspension-remobilization” sanction. It would make it possible to suspend the payment of an allowance to a person who does not respect their obligations, with the possibility of recovering it afterwards. The idea being to add a level before delisting.
A “sordid” logic according to MP Danielle Simonnet (LFI) or even an “infantilization” according to the communist Pierre Dharréville. It’s a “new blow” against the most precarious, says socialist Arthur Delaporte, pleading for an unconditional minimum subsistence income. The RN is also hostile to the weekly activity obligation. And judges that the “complexity” of the new governance planned for the network of employment stakeholders is “doomed to stagnation”.
“Co-piloting”
“We cannot be satisfied with the current situation, with less than 20% of RSA recipients benefiting from monitoring,” argues Renaissance MP Christine Le Nabour, rapporteur of the text. Contrary to Nupes, the right intends to fight to preserve the minimum 15 hours of activity: “If we do not enshrine this principle in the law, it will be misused”, judges LR deputy Philippe Juvin.
In line with the spirit of the text, his group is however concerned about the “financial cost of the reform”, estimated between 2.2 and 2.7 billion euros over three years. And deplores “a sort of latent recentralization” of the public employment service. “No article, no provision calls into question a single competence of the communities” in terms of employment or integration, insists Mr. Dussopt, assuring that the employment network will be managed “in co-piloting between the State and the local communities”.
Also in the sights of the right, measures on the “reception of young children”, for which the municipalities are established as organizing authorities. The Senate reduced their new obligations provided for in the text, partly restored in committee by the deputies. But the debate will continue in the hemicycle.
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