National Assembly votes contract commitment young

The device aims to assign a monthly allocation of up to 500 euros at least 26 years of age looking to fit into the labor market.

Le Monde with AFP

Announced Tuesday , it was adopted two days later. The National Assembly approved, Thursday, November 4, the creation of the Youth Commitment Agreement (CEJ), a device designed to take over, from March 2022, from the Youth Guarantee to bring back to employment those who are the most distant.

MPs voted a government amendment that grants an additional € 550 million to the “Work and Employment” mission to finance it, on the occasion of the review of the Finance Bill 2022. The scheme will mobilize In addition 2.05 billion euros of 5.4 billion euros of budget assigned to the young plan, 1 solution. The Executive had lifted the veil on Tuesday on the details of this measure, sketched by the President of the Republic on July 12 and whose presentation was waiting since the return.

The CEJ, which can be proposed by Pôle emploi, local missions and other public and private actors, must help harmonize existing youth support devices Neet (neither employment or training nor in education and to intensify and customize the accompaniment offered to them, in exchange for an allocation of up to 500 euros.

In detail, 268 million euros will be used to “strengthen the public employment service to intensify the follow-up of the young people placed” in CEJ, and 140 million will be allocated to the payment of the allowance.

The Rapporteur for the Notice of the Social Affairs Committee, MP Bernard Perrut (Republicans), questioned the “real value” of this new device compared to the Youth Guarantee, and on the ” Realistic character “of the target announced by the Government Tuesday: 400,000 young people in 2022, double the 200,000 young people to benefit from the Youth Guarantee in 2021.” We do not want to promote Assistantship through a Youth RSA and Still less supporting promises that do not respect young people who have to find confidence in the future, “he said.

Reviews of the PS and LFI

But the most virulent criticisms came from the left of the hemicycle. “The account is not there,” said MP Boris Vallaud (Socialist Party), taking the Form of the Secretary General of the CFDT, Laurent Berger. He lasted a late “late” and “insufficient” answer, while the number of Neet is estimated at a million.

François Ruffin (France unsigned a “patching”, a “last minute DIY” and a “form of renunciation”. He pointed out that from 2021 it is planned to help more than 400,000 young people, via the youth warranties, managed by local missions, but also via the intensive youth support (AIJ), driven by Pôle emploi (objective of 240,000 young people helped in 2021).

The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, said he did not want to enter the battle of the numbers, stressing the improvement of the economic situation since the beginning of the year, and recalling that the CEJ is an “open right” – Other young people beyond the 400,000 can be accompanied if they wish.

Pôle emploi will propose 100,000 CEJ in 2022, according to the Ministry of Labor, which does not exclude that other young people continue to benefit from the IAJ.

/Media reports.