Three weeks of the first round of the presidential election, the Minister of Labor clarified the contours of one of the flagship measures of the president of the outgoing Republic.
Le Monde with AFP
This is one of the phrases of the Macron candidate program, condition the payment of the RSA to fifteen to twenty hours of activity facilitating professional integration. While many associations have criticized this proposal, the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, said Tuesday, March 22, the contours.
“There are many counterparties, but what we are talking about is of a program consisting of different activities such as training courses or immersions that make it possible to contact the professional world, to specify its project and to realize it. It is not work of general interest, “she explained in an online interview on Tuesday at the weekly OBS.
“It is not a question of imposing the beneficiaries of the RSA to do general interest without being paid, as Mrs. [Valérie] proposes”, “she said. The Party candidate Republicans in the presidential election proposes that beneficiaries give “fifteen hours of activity to society”. In the Macron candidate project, says M me Borne, it is about “to participate in workshops in which one can make a personalized assessment”.
According to her, “this can help identify job brakes, such as health problems and offer a service. Or help to make a CV and learn to appear before an employer. Or discover Trades through corporate immersions, then finance vocational training “. The Minister of Labor also clarified that Emmanuel Macron’s proposal will not concern “people who face serious health or addiction problems, psychic problems, child care difficulties.” / P>
Trade Union Criticism
In the morning Tuesday, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, also attempted to explain over Europe 1 the proposal of the outgoing President on the RSA. “The goal of this safety net is to allow French to find the path of employment. Does we consider that today it works? Well, no. I’m sorry. To say it, it does not work, “he said, in particular.
“Take the beneficiaries of the RSA after seven years, there is only one third in the job. It is good that the device must be changed. Is it necessary Doing it by stigmatizing the beneficiaries of the RSA? The answer is no. Does it have to do so by accompanying them more? Indeed, asking them for hours, in return, to form, to be in a situation of finding a employment, “said the Near the President of the Republic.
Following Mr. Macron’s presentation, several unions denounced the philosophy of such a reform on the RSA. “This is to say – as for the deprive of jobs – that those who are unemployed, those who benefit from the RSA, do so for pleasure,” had criticized the Secretary General of the CGT, Philippe Martinez. “It must be found at work, from work that corresponds to their qualifications with a worthy salary. There, we guilty those who have difficulties in life, as if it were their fault or a personal choice,” he had pursued.
Even bell for Laurent Escure, his counterpart from UNSA, who expressed twitter of his “deep disagreement with Mr. Macron’s project”. “The poorest must be accompanied, and not suspected or punished. A training must be offered, not imposed,” he judged.