The Senate with a right-wing majority adopted at first reading on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday the bill “for full employment”, which must put in place a more directive follow-up of RSA recipients. The vote was acquired by 250 votes “for” and 91 “against” (the three groups on the left). Carried by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, this bill will not be examined by the National Assembly until the fall.
Creation of a France Travail network
It should give rise to the France Travail network, including Pôle emploi as the main operator, to better coordinate the actors of the public employment service. The executive is betting on this transformation to achieve full employment, i.e. an unemployment rate of around 5% in 2027 (against 7.1% currently), against the backdrop of the idea that “no one is unemployable”.
Concretely, it provides that will be automatically registered on the list of job seekers, in addition to people looking for work, beneficiaries of active solidarity income (RSA) as well as their spouse, and young people followed by local missions. It generalizes for all these people a “commitment contract”, hardened by the senators: they have provided that this contract sets a weekly duration of at least 15 hours of activity (immersions, refreshers, CV writing, etc.) , while the government wishes to maintain a certain flexibility to take into account specific situations.
In the same “logic of rights and duties”, the text makes it easier to implement sanctions for recipients who do not meet their obligations, with a new measure called “suspension-remobilisation”.
“A digital backpack”
The text has two other sections: one which aims to improve the access of people with disabilities to employment in the ordinary environment and the other on early childhood which recognizes the municipalities as “organizing authorities” of reception, with a mission to identify needs, inform families and build the offer. This last part was significantly modified by the senators, with the removal of the “national strategy” that the government wishes to put in place and a reduction in the constraints weighing on small municipalities.
On the disability side, the Senate voted for a government amendment creating a “digital backpack” which will trace the facilities that workers with disabilities have benefited from during their lives, in order to facilitate their mobility.
Philippe Mouiller (LR) was pleased that the text had been “deeply overhauled to fight against recentralisation”. On the left, the socialist Emilienne Poumirol judged that he “puts the responsibility for unemployment on the people most weakened by life”. The ecologist Raymonde Poncet Monge challenged Olivier Dussopt, renamed for the occasion “Minister of Employment”: “when are you going to talk about work?”, She asked.