Announced Tuesday, it is voted on two days later. The National Assembly approved, Thursday, November 4, the creation of the youth engagement contract (CEJ), a device intended to take over, from March 2022, the youth guarantee to bring back to employment those who are most in it. distant.
The deputies voted for a government amendment granting an additional 550 million euros to the “work and employment” mission to finance it, on the occasion of the examination of the 2022 finance bill. The mechanism will also mobilize 2 , 05 billion euros of the 5.4 billion euros budget allocated to the “1 young person, 1 solution” plan. The executive had lifted the veil on Tuesday on the details of this measure, outlined by the President of the Republic on July 12 and whose presentation was long overdue since the start of the school year.
Harmonize existing systems
The EYC, which could be proposed by Pôle emploi, local missions and other public and private actors, should make it possible to harmonize the existing support mechanisms for young NEETs (neither in employment, in training nor in studies) and ” intensify and personalize the support offered to them, in exchange for an allowance of a maximum of 500 euros.
In detail, 268 million euros will be used to “Strengthen the public employment service to intensify the monitoring of young people placed” in CEJ, and 140 million will be allocated to the payment of the allowance.
The rapporteur for the opinion of the Social Affairs Committee, the deputy Bernard Perrut (Les Républicains), questioned the “Real added value” of this new system in relation to the youth guarantee, and on the “Realistic character” of the objective announced by the government on Tuesday: 400,000 young people helped in 2022, double the 200,000 young people to benefit from the youth guarantee in 2021. “We do not want to promote assistantship through a youth RSA and even less support promises that do not respect young people who must find confidence in the future”, he said.
Critics of the PS and LFI
But the most virulent criticisms came from the left of the Hemicycle. “The account is not there”, affirmed the deputy Boris Vallaud (Socialist Party), using the formula of the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger. He lambasted an answer ” late “ and “Insufficient”, while the number of NEETs is estimated at one million.
François Ruffin (La France insoumise) denounced a “Tinkering”, a “Last minute DIY” and an “Form of renunciation”. He underlined that from 2021, it is planned to help more than 400,000 young people, via the youth guarantee, managed by local missions, but also via intensive support for young people (AIJ), led by Pôle emploi (objective of 240,000 young people helped in 2021).
The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, said she did not want to enter the battle of the figures, stressing the improvement in the economic situation since the start of the year, and recalling that the CEJ is a “Open right” – other young people over the 400,000 can be supported if they wish.
Pôle emploi will offer 100,000 CEJs in 2022, according to the Ministry of Labor, which does not exclude other young people from continuing to benefit from the AIJ.