2023-09-19 04:00:09
Published on September 19, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.
It was a new president who led the debates this Monday within the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly: the Macronist deputy from the North Charlotte Parmentier-Lecoq succeeded Fadila Khattabi, appointed to the government in July. The deputies met to examine the “full employment” bill and its approximately 1,100 amendments deemed admissible.
This text, adopted in July at first reading by the Senate, is on the program for the short extraordinary session which anticipates the start of the parliamentary term by a few days. If the tension was far from that which accompanied the examination of the pension reform, the hearing of the Minister of Labor gave rise to a skirmish with the elected representatives of the left, in particular on the reform of the RSA.
Reassure local elected officials
At the center of the controversy: the “engagement contract” that the beneficiary will have to sign providing for a minimum weekly duration of activity, which the Senate has set at 3 p.m. and with the possibility of sanctioning the person who does not respect it not by a suspension of his allowance.
Faced with accusations of “free work”, Olivier Dussopt sought to clear up the matter without pointing the finger at the senators, with the prospect of a joint joint commission, which will arrive at the end of the first reading in the Assembly since the government has opted for an accelerated procedure.
He insisted that these 15 hours will be a “common law objective”. But he estimated that RSA beneficiaries “are not all equal […] some being further from employment than others.” “We are aware that the level of 15 to 20 hours allows greater mobilization, but we are aware that it can be reached gradually,” added the minister, citing the case of single parents or unemployed people with health problems. without necessarily having recognition as a disabled worker.
Olivier Dussopt also sought to reassure local elected officials, in particular from the regions and departments, who fear seeing their prerogatives, on the training of job seekers for the former and RSA recipients for the latter, put into effect. cause by the creation of France travail.
“We want the most territorialized governance possible with co-piloting at each level, national, regional, departmental and in employment areas,” he insisted, stressing that local authorities would have a deliberative voice in the governance bodies. France work. For him, they “will not have fewer skills but more visibility” on the directions of the public employment service.
Furthermore, faced with criticism of the confusion between the France Travail entity and the current Pôle emploi, which leads many parliamentarians to plead not to rename the latter, Olivier Dussopt explained that the debates in the Assembly “will allow ‘move towards greater clarity’.
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