The 15 to 20 hours a week of compulsory insertion activities for RSA beneficiaries will not be included in the system reform project, but it will be an objective “adapted” to each person, Labor Minister Olivier Dussop said on Tuesday.
These activities, which will not be “neither free work nor compulsory volunteering”, will be defined in the “reciprocal commitment contract” between the beneficiary and his adviser, a contract “that has existed since the creation of the RMI in 1988”, he pointed out. outside. But, “of 1,950 million RSA beneficiaries, 350,000 have no social or socio-professional follow-up,” he insisted. And “seven years after its first registration, 42% of RSA beneficiaries are still there, it is a collective failure.”
Creation of a suspension within the sanction system
The reform of the RSA, which has begun to be tested in 18 departments, is part of the France Travail bill that will be presented to the Council of Ministers in June and reorganizes the public employment service.
To reinforce this support, there will be “additional means”, assured Olivier Dussopt, recalling that the High Commissioner for Employment, Thibaut Guilluy, had quantified “between 2,000 and 2,500 million euros accumulated until 2027” for the France Labor reform. But this will also involve redeploying the jobs of Pôle emploi, “whose workforce has increased from 47,000 to 51,000 full-time equivalents (FTEs) from 2017 to 2022, while the unemployment rate is now below its level before the crisis,” he recalled.
The bill also reforms the system of sanctions for recipients who do not comply with their obligations. “Today, there is a pure and simple exclusion, several tens of thousands of people a year. What we want to create (before this exclusion: editor’s note) is a suspension that will always be decided by the president of the departmental board. it can last a day, a week… The advantage is that it is quick to implement and quickly reversible.”
Source: BFM TV
