Beneficiaries of active solidarity income (RSA) will indeed be required to work around fifteen hours per week, in return for their allowance. Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise in 2022 but initially absent from the bill “on full employment”discussed since Monday September 25 in the National Assembly, the conditionality of the payment of the RSA was the subject of an agreement between the presidential coalition and The Republicans (LR), essential support of the government to obtain an absolute majority.
Friday September 29, the deputies ratified title 1er of the bill, which establishes this system. To the great dismay of the left. “We are at the heart of the arrangement you made with Les Républicains! »launched in an accusatory tone the communist deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône, Pierre Dharréville, on Thursday, to the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt.
During the examination of the text at the Luxembourg Palace in July, he nevertheless opposed the addition of such a device by right-wing senators because “these were not provisions of a legislative nature (…) nor regulatory order », he explained then. Within the Ministry of Labor, it was estimated, a few days before the examination of the text in the Assembly, that applying this measure to all job seekers “made no sense” and that we should rather favor monitoring “personalized”. The Minister of Labor finally supported the amendment of the LR deputy for Hauts-de-Seine Philippe Juvin, while the right had made this measure an essential point for voting on the text.
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This new system provides that payment of the RSA (607 euros monthly for a single person without children) is conditional on at least fifteen hours of activity per week, with no ceiling on duration, with the exception of people who “have health problems or a disability” as well as “single parents without childcare solutions”. “We consider that Mr. Juvin’s amendment goes in the right direction since it allows both to set the objective of fifteen hours of weekly activity for RSA beneficiaries and to provide adaptations for an increase in workload progressive », finally justified Olivier Dussopt, Thursday September 28, in the Hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon. At the start of the debates on Monday, the former socialist assured that these activities would not fall under “neither free work nor compulsory volunteering, but rather integration and training activities to enable a return to employment”.
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