The government announced on Monday the launch of a new national plan to combat illegal work over the period 2023-2027, with 34 measures to “better control”, “better sanctions” and “repair damage”. This plan was presented by Olivier Dussopt on the occasion of the Interministerial Anti-Fraud Committee devoted to the fight against illegal work, said the Ministry of Labor in a press release.
It aims to coordinate the action of State services around “two priority objectives”: “better control” – which involves “targeting, prioritizing and strengthening controls” – and “better sanctions, better recovery and repair of damage related to illegal work”. Among the 34 measures, the plan intends to “ensure the exemplary nature of major sporting events” such as the Rugby World Cup and the Olympic Games in 2024, with controls but also the publication of guides, for example on the rules governing the use of volunteering.
It also intends to “better prevent fraud in posted work” by informing employers and employees “of their obligations and their rights”, while in 2021, excluding road transport, “200,000 employees have been posted at least once in France. by companies established abroad”, the country being one of the main EU Member States receiving such workers. The plan also provides for simplifying the so-called “blacklist” device, namely a penalty for disseminating court decisions on a single website of the Ministry of Labor condemning a natural or legal person.
It intends to “fight against false statuses” (such as false self-employed via the use of the auto/micro-entrepreneur scheme for salaried jobs) in particular by developing common strategies vis-à-vis certain digital platforms. Added to this are actions to combat human trafficking and the prevention of situations of unfit housing, or even the implementation of a new power of cyber-investigations for the search and observation of breaches of illegal work on the internet. Other measures should allow workers to be more “restored in their rights” or “advance the recovery of fines imposed and evaded contributions”.
