Elisabeth Borne confirmed on Saturday, during her trip to Reunion, that the France Labor bill will provide for “penalties” for RSA beneficiaries who do not comply with the “accompaniment” path to return to employment.
On the third day of her trip to the island, the Prime Minister visited the Ple emploi agency in the town of Saint-Leu-les Trois Bassins, where she signed the state-department agreement on the France Travail experiment with the president of the department, Cyrille Melchior.
The government wants to reorganize the employment and integration services, and France Travail is intended to succeed Ple emploi.
We must continue to aim for the levers to allow everyone to return to a job. This is all the more important in a context where we know that there are many companies looking to recruit and who say they can’t, said Ms. Borne during a press briefing.
At the same time, a bill will be presented at the beginning of June to the Council of Ministers. We want to give ourselves every ability to get the local missions, the county council, the region, which is responsible for training job seekers, to work together. We are mobilizing all our forces to best support the beneficiaries of the RSA, she continued.
And indeed, I confirm to you that in the bill, there will indeed be the possibility of suspending, for a short period perhaps to start, in any case there will also be a system of sanctions as soon as we have accomplished, on our side, our share of responsibility, that is to say that we will have put the beneficiary of the RSA in a position to follow the course that we have proposed to him.
This possibility of sanction will intervene once we have resolved the other preliminary problems, the peripheral obstacles to returning to work, she specified, citing in particular the problem of childcare.
La Réunion is one of the 18 departments that will experiment with the France Travail project, the only one overseas. The department of Seine-Saint-Denis withdrew from the list, explaining that it refused the logic of conditionality for government aid.
Previously, on Saturday morning, Ms. Borne had gone to the Belvdre du Mado, and visited the Observatory of Atmospheric Physics in La Runion. She then went to the adapted military service regiment of Saint-Pierre where she exchanged with volunteers.
The Prime Minister completes her first overseas trip on Saturday evening, a year after her Matignon appointment.
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