The 15 to 20 hours of compulsory integration activities per week for RSA beneficiaries will not be included in the bill reforming the system, but will be an objective “adapted” to each person, specified the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussop on Tuesday. “A beneficiary who has taken over part-time, we are not going to ask her to do 20 more hours of integration (…). A disabled beneficiary who spends time diagnosing her health problems to find out which positions she can occupy, it’s back to work, it comes in 15 to 20 hours, “he cited as an example during of a press conference.
These activities, which will be “neither free work nor compulsory volunteering”, will be defined in the “reciprocal commitment contract” between the beneficiary and his adviser, a contract “which has existed since the creation of the RMI in 1988” , he pointed out. But, “out of 1.950 million beneficiaries of the RSA, 350,000 have no social or socio-professional follow-up”, he insisted. And “seven years after their first registration, 42% of RSA beneficiaries are still there, it’s a collective failure”. “What fishes is the accompaniment. We are not quit of our duty of solidarity when we have paid 607 euros to someone”, he judged.
The reform of the RSA, which has begun to be tested in 18 departments, is part of the France Travail bill which will be presented in June to the Council of Ministers and reorganizes the public employment service. To strengthen this support, there will be “additional means”, assured Olivier Dussopt, recalling that the High Commissioner for Employment Thibaut Guilluy had quantified “between 2 and 2.5 billion euros cumulatively until 2027 » the France Travail reform.
But this will also go through the redeployment of Pôle emploi positions, “whose workforce has increased from 47,000 to 51,000 full-time equivalents (FTE) from 2017 to 2022 while the unemployment rate is now below its pre-crisis level ” , he recalled. The bill also reforms the system of penalties for recipients who do not meet their obligations. “Today there is outright radiation, several tens of thousands of people a year. What we want to create (before this radiation: Editor’s note) is a suspension which will always be decided by the president of the departmental council. It could last a day, a week… The advantage is that it is quick to implement and quickly reversible”.
