“We’ve been waiting for a policy that takes up the issue for a long time! » Pascal Mousset is a restaurant owner. At the head of several chic Parisian brasseries, he believes thatbetween a third and a half of [ses] collaborators are foreigners. And you can’t find any French divers. They are Malian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani…”
So when the government announced, in November, that it wanted to facilitate the regularization of undocumented workers by creating a residence permit for jobs in tension, on the occasion of the “immigration” law which will be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday 1is February, Mr. Mousset, also president of the National Group of Independent Hotel-Restaurants in Ile-de-France, said he “extremely concerned”. He claims to have had supper« total hypocrisy » on the subject and “Kafkaesque administrative procedures” for an employee to obtain a residence permit. “We want to run our boxes, that’s all, he hammers. And without these people, our businesses no longer function, nor our hospitals, our retirement homes or the building. »
“It is because we had feedback from the field with employers wishing to regularize their employees that we wanted to act on this side”, assures Sacha Houlié, deputy (Renaissance) of Vienne and president of the law commission. In 2022, nearly 11,000 people were regularized in respect of their wage activity. “In our sector [où 200 000 à 300 000 emplois seraient vacants]there is a consensus on the subject”, supports Mr. Mousset. The president of the Union des métiers et des industries de l’hôtellerie, chef Thierry Marx, is also in favor of simplifying regularisations: “Regularizing people is a way of responding to the difficulties of shortage occupations, it is a driver of inclusion and regulation. »
A “politically polluted debate”
Director General of the Federation of Individual Employers (Fepem), Pierre-Olivier Ruchenstain is the author of an opinion of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, in January 2022, on jobs in tension. A text which, in terms of immigration, only recommends developing French courses or the recognition of skills. “We went there slowly, explains Mr. Ruchenstain. The professional branches fear a media polarization, because the migration question has twice been in the final of the presidential election. » Under Fepem, it is said “favorable to the regularization of employees”. “A fifth of our employees were born abroadhe justifies. It’s structural and it dates back to the 1960s.”
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