The government presents Wednesday its bill “for full employment”, which should give birth to France Travail, successor of Pôle emploi, and set up a more personalized and directive accompaniment of the recipients of the RSA who have hardly benefited from the drop in unemployment.
After the thorny issue of pensions, the executive wants to turn the page and focus on the next challenges of the five-year term. Among them, full employment. The government presents this Wednesday its bill “for full employment”, which should give birth to France Travail, successor to Pôle emploi. What’s in it?
An unemployment rate around 5% in 2027
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) by targeting people who are far from employment. Despite the sharp drop in unemployment in recent years and labor shortages in many sectors, the number of RSA beneficiaries has hardly decreased since 2017, around 1.8 million.
In this context, the creation of France Travail, by 1 January 2025 at the latest, aims to better coordinate the actors of the public employment service, which is more fragmented than in other European countries. It is a question of having the same entry procedure for all people looking for work or encountering integration difficulties, regardless of the door they knock on. The idea is that a person applying for RSA at the CAF finds himself at the same time registered with France Travail, whereas today only 40% of RSA beneficiaries are at Pôle emploi.
A support course
This automatic registration with France Travail, on the basis of common criteria, will allow “rapid entry into the support course” and “visibility on all people looking for work in a territory”, underlines-t- we at Matignon. Each member of France Travail will sign “a contract of engagement”. It is in this context that renewed support for RSA recipients is being tested in 18 departments with the sensitive issue of 15 to 20 hours of work per week.
Not formally enshrined in law, these hours (immersions, refreshers, CV writing, etc.) will be an “adapted” objective for everyone, said Olivier Dussopt. It will be “neither free work nor compulsory volunteering”, he repeated in the face of the fears of associations fighting against poverty.
Easier penalty
In this “logic of rights and duties”, the bill makes it easier to implement sanctions for recipients who do not meet their obligations. Before the ax of a radiation – little applied – the adviser will now be able, unless opposed by the president of the departmental council, to suspend the payment of the RSA in the event of breach, with a retroactive regularization when the person respects his commitments again.
The text, which will first be examined in the Senate at the beginning of July, has two other parts: one on disability, which aims to improve the access of people with disabilities to employment in the ordinary environment and the other on the small childhood which recognizes the municipalities as “organizing authorities” of reception, with the mission of identifying needs, informing families and building the offer. 200,000 new childcare places will be created by 2030.
Source: Europe1
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