Elisabeth Borne wished Friday Salon-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhne) to reconnect with the spirit of the RMI set up by Michel Rocard in 1988 to support in a more personalized and more directive way towards employment people on RSA.
The idea of the RMI (Minimum integration income) was to allow everyone to have enough to live on while at the same time being accompanied towards employment, in an integration process, but we have somewhat lost sight of this objective. , the Prime Minister told the press.
Allowances have taken up more and more space in departmental budgets to the detriment of support and integration into employment. What we want to do is reconnect with the spirit of the RMI and ensure that we do not leave recipients of the RSA (Active solidarity income, editor’s note) for years without support, she developed.
The RMI was set up in 1988 by the government of socialist Michel Rocard then replaced in 2009 by the RSA, which is established 607euros for a single person.
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However, despite the decline in unemployment and labor shortages in many sectors, the number of RSA recipients has hardly decreased since 2017, around 1.9 million. And only 40% of them are registered with Ple emploi.
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This new support, tested in 18 departments, is part of the France Travail reform, which will replace Ple Emploi. It will be more personalized and will make it easier to apply penalties for recipients who do not respect their obligations.
The intended objective of 15 to 20 hours of activities per weekwhich does not appear in the law, will be suitable for everyonehad specified the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, also present, in the face of the fears of associations fighting against poverty.
It’s a win-win approach
It is a win-win approach for job seekers and for companies, underlined Elisabeth Borne, in front of an audience of elected officials, companies and employment actors, including the presidents of the Renaud region. Muselier and department Martine Vassal.
After meeting former RSA recipients, she heard about the Local Mission for Young Beneficiaries of Youth Employment Contracts (CEJ), which she had set up when she was Minister of Labor and which inspired the work contract. commitment of RSA recipients. More than 300,000 young people out of work have signed up for a YEC since its launch in March 2022.
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