The main measure relating to the conditioning of the active solidarity income (RSA) in exchange for "fifteen to twenty hours of compulsory integration activity per week" will not be included as planned in the France Travail bill, assured Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labour, Tuesday May 23. This activity time will appear in the contract of engagement signed between the beneficiaries and their adviser, which will allow, according to the ministry, to adapt the hourly volume in an individualized way.
"It's not a questioning of the principle at all. It just does not come under the legislative level", assured Matignon to Le Monde, before continuing that "the bill provides, on the other hand, that the employment contract, between the beneficiary of the RSA and the organization which accompanies him, specifies the intensity of the accompaniment. »
In other words, the beneficiary and his adviser sign a "commitment contract". It is in this contract - "which has existed since the creation of the RMI in 1988", specified Mr. Dussopt - that the nature of the activities (immersion and training in the company, accompanied social approach, collective workshops, etc.) and the number hours − between fifteen and twenty − are fixed.
Depending on the personal situations of the beneficiaries, the content of the activities will vary. “A disabled claimant who spends time diagnosing her health issues to find out what jobs she can do is back to work. It comes in fifteen to twenty hours, ”cited the minister as an example during a press conference reported by Agence France-Presse.
The creation of a suspension before striking off
The France Travail bill would also reform the system of penalties for beneficiaries who do not respect their obligations. “Today there is pure and simple radiation (…). What we want to create [before the radiation] 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, ”detailed Mr. Dussopt.
This decision displeases ATD Quart-Monde, which considers that "an arbitrary suspension can only aggravate the insecurity of people living in extreme poverty and the non-use [of this allowance]". “Of 1.95 million RSA beneficiaries, 350,000 have no social or socio-professional follow-up,” insisted Olivier Dussopt.
The minister also questioned the support that "fishes": "Seven years after their first registration, 42% of RSA beneficiaries are still there, it's a collective failure". To remedy this, there will be "additional means", assured the minister, recalling that the High Commissioner for Employment Thibaut Guilluy had quantified "between 2 and 2.5 billion euros cumulatively until 2027" the reform France Work.
This will also involve 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 “recalled the minister. As a reminder, the RSA reform has begun to be tested in eighteen departments and one metropolis, and is part of the France Travail bill which aims to reform the entire public employment service.
