Left-wing deputies presented on Thursday an appeal to the Constitutional Council against the measures of the “full employment” bill, adopted on Tuesday by Parliament, which point in particular to the obligation of at least 15 hours of weekly activity for RSA beneficiaries.
Rebels, socialists, communists and environmentalists, joined by the elected officials of the independent group Liot, believe that conditioning the payment of the RSA in this way “violates the constitutional right to obtain adequate means of subsistence from the community.”
This measure, which they want to be censored, also contravenes “the principle of constitutional value of safeguarding human dignity,” according to the text of the appeal consulted by AFP.
The applicants also believe that the bill “violates the right to access unemployment insurance” of job seekers who do not respect these activity obligations.
Measures of “stigmatization” and “infantilization”
This text, definitively adopted on Tuesday, sets the course towards an unemployment rate of 5% by 2027, which will be achieved in particular through greater support for people furthest from employment.
It provides for new obligations for those registered on an expanded list of jobseekers, which will now include all RSA beneficiaries.
In particular, they must carry out at least 15 hours per week of training or “integration” activities. An hourly volume that may be reduced, according to the text, depending on “individual situations.”
The left criticized measures of “stigma” and “infantilization” during parliamentary debates. It denounces a vagueness in the activities in question, possible exceptions or even planned sanctions.
The appeal also addresses the new sanction measure created for RSA beneficiaries who do not respect their obligations. The bill provides that your subsidy may be suspended and then recoverable in the event of “remobilization” within three months of payment.
This “risks aggravating people’s vulnerability, since during the duration of said suspension they will not have visibility on the level of their resources” and “will cause situations of deprivation and over-indebtedness for the beneficiary, their spouse and their children.” , say the deputies.
Among the ten complaints, the appeal also points out a “lack of recognition of the right to respect for private life” of the measure that provides for the automatic registration on the expanded list of job applicants of the spouses of people who apply for the RSA.
Source: BFM TV
