2024-01-18 11:11:54
Published on Jan 18, 2024 at 11:56Updated Jan 18, 2024 at 12:11
Expected at the end of January, the second round of departments responsible for experimenting with the reform of support for RSA beneficiaries might wait a little, due to reshuffling. The teams of the new Minister of Labor Catherine Vautrin will take all the more time as the candidates jostle at the gate: around forty departments, more than expected, which proves the interest of communities in the process.
The nominees will join the first 18 to have launched a year ago into this very structuring aspect of the reorganization of the public employment and integration service. This reform ratifies a logic of rights and duties: guarantee for beneficiaries to be quickly oriented to the best of their socio-professional profile once morest the obligation to commit to 15 hours of active procedures per week, with some exceptions. Otherwise, their allowance may be suspended. Everything is formalized in an employment contract.
Promising directions
Even if hindsight is lacking, the first feedback is “overall satisfactory”, assures “Echos” Frédéric Bierry, the president of the solidarity, health and work commission within the Départements de France association, also at the head of the European community of Alsace. “The monitoring group meets once a month. Each time, Thibaut Guilly listened very well,” he adds, referring to the new Director General of the operator France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi), who led the consultation leading to the reform.
As of January 2, 16,300 beneficiaries have benefited from this reinforced support, out of around 40,000 in the experimental areas. Half were guided towards a professional path, a quarter towards a socio-professional path. “It was much less before,” assures Frédéric Bierry. The remaining quarter of beneficiaries, whose obstacles to returning to employment are too pronounced, were referred to social monitoring.
Another encouraging element is that the time between registration for the RSA and the first appointment has been reduced to around a month, while too many beneficiaries are left in the wild. “The more we isolate ourselves in the RSA, the less we leave it,” emphasizes Frédéric Bierry, which a Drees study recently confirmed.
In Thibaut Guilly’s entourage, other promising figures are put forward, even if they relate to a limited sample: of the thousand beneficiaries oriented on a professional path in June, around fifty, or 5%, completed an immersion in business, in addition to direct access to employment, training, business creation… “A good start and we are preparing to do more, certain territories being at more than 10%, the North for example”, anticipates the operator. Between 5% and 10% have obtained training. Above all, 33% landed a job for more than a month within five months, a rate considered “very encouraging”.
Significant reinforcements
Orientation and accelerated diagnosis, personalized and regular advice, joint work between departments and France Travail… All this goes hand in hand with one of the promises of the reform: significant reinforcements in advisers so that they do not have more than 50 to 60 beneficiaries to follow each. In 2023, 21 million euros have been earmarked for this; 170 million are planned this year, before a generalization planned for 2025 which will require much more.
In addition to confirmation that the means will follow, the experimentation must still prove its worth when it comes to integrating long-term beneficiaries, the self-employed and young people with often poorly understood profiles into the France Travail mold. It also remains to be seen whether the objective of 15 hours of weekly activities is tenable. Finally, it remains to build common software between all France Travail stakeholders, which is not yet the case.
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