Immigration: divided employers about Trades Trade Tension Tension

If the hotel and catering push in favor of the measure proposed by the government, other branches are more reluctant, because this would amount to recognizing having recourse to concealed work.

by Thibaud Métais and Julia Pascual

“We have been waiting for a policy that seizes the question for a long time!” Pascal Mousset is a restaurateur. At the head of several Parisian chic breweries, he believes that “between a third and half of [his] employees are foreign. And you do not find French divers. They are Malians, Bangladais, Pakistanis …”

So, when the government announced, in November, wanting to facilitate the regularization of undocumented workers by creating a trades in tension, on the occasion of the “Immigration” law which will be presented in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday 1 ER FEBRUARY, Mr. MOUSSET, also president of the National Group of Independents Hôtellerie-Restauration of Ile-de-France, said it was “extremely concerned”. He claims to have subjected to “total hypocrisy” on the subject and “Kafkai administrative procedures” for an employee to obtain a residence permit. “We want to run our boxes, that’s all,” he hammered. And without these people, our businesses no longer work, any more than our hospitals, our retirement homes or the building. “

“It is because we had backgrounds with employers wishing to regularize their employees that we wanted to act on this side,” says Sacha Houlié, deputy (Renaissance) of Vienne and president of The Law Commission. In 2022, nearly 11,000 people were regularized for their wage activity. “In our sector [where 200,000 to 300,000 jobs would be vacant], there is a consensus on the subject,” said Mr. Mousset. The President of the Union of Hotel Trades and Industries, the chef Thierry Marx, is also favorable to a simplification of the regularizations: “Regularizing people, it is a means of responding to the difficulties of the trades In tension, it is an engine of inclusion and regulation. “

a” politically polluted debate “

Director General of the Federation of Private Employers (FEPEM), Pierre-Olivier Ruchenstain is the author of an opinion from the Social and Environmental Economic Council, in January 2022, on the trades in tension. A text which, in matters of immigration, recommends only to develop French courses or the recognition of skills. “We were slowly there, explains Mr. Ruchenstain. Professional branches fear media polarization, because the migratory question was twice in the presidential final.” As the FEPEM, he says “favorable to the regularization of employees “. “A fifth of our employees were born abroad, he justifies. It is structural and it dates from the 1960s.”

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