Élisabeth Borne, Prime Minister, spoke this Wednesday before the deputies. Two topics were discussed in particular: full employment and pension reform.
Today full employment is our door. And work remains for me a major lever of emancipation, affirmed the Prime Minister in her general policy statement to the Assembly. Ms. Borne did not set date or specific figure for this purpose. Full employment in France is generally considered to be unemployment rate around 5%.
During the previous five-year term, we have already come halfway towards full employment, she underlined. 7.3%, the unemployment rate is the lowest for 15 years, according to her, a consequence of the reforms of apprenticeship, unemployment insurance, investment in training for job seekers and the plan for a young person , a solution.
To achieve full employment, we must bringing back to work those who are furthest from the labor market, she estimated. But the organization of support for the unemployed today is too complex and its effectiveness is lagging behind.
We can no longer continue to have, on the one hand, the State which accompanies job seekers, on the other, the regions which take care of their training and the departments in charge of the integration of RSA beneficiaries , she judged.
That’s why we want transform Ple employment in France Workshe said, suggesting that the public operator should oversee these currently dispersed skills.
We must join our forces, work together to be more effective in supporting the unemployed, she insisted with regard to local authorities. This is how each French will find his place in the labor market and that we will meet the recruitment needs of companies, she judged.
She also returned to the reform of the RSA, announced by Emmanuel Macron during the election campaign. Paying an allowance is not enough. What we want is for everyone to get out of it and regain their dignity thanks to work, said Elisabeth Borne, without explicitly mentioning the 15 to 20 hours of activity or support mentioned by the president in exchange for the allocation.
Finally, full employment also means taking up the challenge of discovering trades, orientation and training (…) from secondary education, she judged. With the communities, we will ensure that each student can discover and know trades, in particular those of crafts, industry, tourism, crafts, she announced.
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We will extend to the vocational school, the success of the apprenticeship, she underlined. This will be the mission of Carole Grandjean, appointed Minister Delegate for Vocational Education and Training on Monday with the dual supervision of the Ministers of Labor and National Education.
The pension reform
Elisabeth Borne, warned that the French should gradually work a little longer.
Our country has need a reform of its pension systemreform which will not be uniform, which will have to take into account the long careers and the arduousness and ensure the retention of seniors in employmentadded the Prime Minister, specifying that this reform would be carried out in consultation with the social partners, involving parliamentarians as far upstream as possible.
The reform is not tied. She won’t take it or leave it. But it is essential, assured Ms. Borne, in particular to build new social progress, for the prosperity of our country and the sustainability of our pay-as-you-go system.
The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, who wants the retirement age to be postponed to 64, or even 65, for an additional four months per year from 2023, stated in May that he wanted to see this reform implemented. in the summer of 2023, a timetable compatible with the start of discussions at the start of the school year in September.
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