Clause 3 of the immigration bill is an interesting but insufficient measure. This is the observation made by three representatives of professions in tension invited this Monday to the set of BFM Business. Let us remember that this article provides for the granting of a temporary residence permit to workers in an irregular situation in scarce professions. In this regard, Xavier Denamur denounces a generalized hypocrisy that has persisted since the 2008 circular on professions in tension. “This hypocrisy allows everyone to work, but if there are hundreds of thousands of workers who work legally with other people’s or false papers, it is because the system allows them to,” says the restaurateur.
To reestablish the means of control and application of the rules, Xavier Denamur asks to request the URSSAF that the organization collect and transmit its data. “If we were to cross-check the files, the URSSAF would imagine that if there are five payrolls for the same person it is because there is a problem somewhere,” adds Pierre Brajeux, president of the French Federation of Private Security.
“A breath of air”
As president of the Federation of Personal Services Companies (FESP), Brice Alzón recognizes the tense situation in his sector. “In personal services, we have beneficiaries in our agencies daily who we have to reject and we have to prioritize beneficiaries on certain weekends due to lack of staff,” he explains. “We estimate that we will need one million additional people by 2028.” Therefore, he is in favor of article 3, which “will be a breath of fresh air and will allow the regularization of certain people who may be in the name of other people or who have had residence permits for which the business owners have not verified continuity.”
Regarding private security, Pierre Brajeux questions the definition of the term “profession in tension”, although his sector alleges a shortage of 20,000 people “to work at cruising speed”, apart from the needs related to the Olympic Games. “I only hope that we do not create a higher council for professions in tension, because a profession in a labor zone can be in tension in a labor zone and no longer be so 300 kilometers away,” underlines the general director of Torann-France. Despite these needs, Pierre Brajeux does not classify private security among the professions referred to in article 3 of the immigration bill: “It is a regulated profession and our controlling ministry is the Ministry of the Interior. All workers They are controlled and from the “Global Security According to the 2021 law, 5 years of residence permit in the national territory are needed before being able to claim access to this profession.
Putting the French back on the path to employment
Beyond the simple framework of Article 3, representatives of the three sectors raise the question of the attractiveness of the professions in question while the unemployment rate remains above 7%. “Maybe the job doesn’t pay enough or maybe we have an unemployment insurance system that could be reviewed and improved,” says Pierre Brajeux. “I think there are many people who we can return to work to meet the needs that we know. “Without reaching measures that pose a problem on a practical level.” The president of the FFSP thus indicates that the private security sector applied a salary increase of 7.5% on January 1, an increase that will be reiterated at around 5% on January 1. “But also in this case we are in a market economy,” he insists. “We are in BtoB and our clients They are companies, so we still have to manage to transfer these increases and transfer them to the sales prices. Inevitably, it is not like that. “He can’t stand it financially.”
Xavier Denamur also shares his observations in the restaurant sector. “When you publish an advertisement for a diver, you do not find a single French person who responds because no one wants to do this job, he laments (…) When you are on Pôle emploi and you look at the people who will apply, there are 100,000 in all of France and they will not necessarily come to you, they will want to work in the evenings or on weekends. The problem is to put employers in contact with people who are really looking for work because there are a lot of people in Pôle emploi who only want to work from Monday to Friday or Wednesday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to pick up the children: it doesn’t work because we have staggered schedules.”
For the restaurateur, the two issues must be addressed at the same time: training the unemployed and making the professions more attractive, on the one hand, and regularizing people who have worked and been in the region between five and ten years. On the other hand: “We cannot leave them in precarious conditions because it is unfair: they come here to work, not to commit crimes.” According to Brice Alzon, it will be necessary to reinforce professionalization and review vocational training to help French people find employment, while planning a “controlled immigration” that would consist, among other things, of looking for work in French-speaking countries. through contracts that include training.
Source: BFM TV
