The decree that establishes a new sanctions regime for employment applicants, including the beneficiaries of active solidarity income (RSA), with a new “retransmobilization system” was published on Saturday, May 31 in the official magazine.
In case of non -compliance with its obligations within the framework of the “Commitment Contract”, an employment search engine will be punished “for the suspension of at least 30%” of its assignments for a period of one to two months, indicates that the decree that comes from the law of 2023. If the work applicant complies with its obligations, the suspension ends, specifies this system of “suspension retranscision”.
With this new system, the Ministry of Labor defends in a press release “an alternative to a direct abolition of income or assignments, so that the sanction promotes the reaction for a rapid return to employment.” Among the main developments in the decree, the Ministry highlights the “harmonization” of applicable sanctions for employment applicants, beneficiaries or not of the RSA, as well as “a new logic of sanctions provided, gradual, not automatic and reversible.”
“A balance between rights and duties”
Cited in the press release, Labor Minister Catherine Vautrin defends as his colleague by Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet “a balance between rights and duties.” The decree “preserves the essential guarantees to the rights of persons”, guarantees that the Ministry, pointing out that “the situation of the RSA beneficiaries that will pay for a family will remain in mind, with a 50% limit of their income that can be suspended or eliminated.”
France’s work had explained last month that the so -called sanction of “suspension reef” had “the advantage of not breaking the support relationship.” According to the operator, with the new rules, the sanctions for a work search engine depend on its effective research and no longer on a simple absence of an appointment, which would generate a system of “quite mechanical” sanctions of the new control procedure, experienced since July in eight regions “, does not lead to an increase in the sanction rate,” the public operator had added.
Voices have been raised in recent weeks against this decree within associations or unions, to denounce a device that runs the risk of “accentuating the phenomenon of poverty.” The National Council for Policy and Social Exclusion (CNLE), an agency located with the Prime Minister, had strongly criticized the new sanctions regime in May. The organization composed of the main institutional and associative actors involved in these subjects, had tried that “runs the risk of affecting the routes of RSA beneficiaries and the accentuated inequalities of the” hard treatment.
Source: BFM TV
