“Either Martin Hirsch didn’t understand, or he pretends not to understand. » Guest in the morning of France 2 this Thursday, April 27, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne responded to the former director of the AP-HP, who considered that the reform of the RSA planned by the government is “social regression”.
“Empower”, “support” or “punish”, RSA recipients in the crosshairs
The bill on full employment, which will be debated in the National Assembly ” before summer “, provides for conditioning the payment of the allowance to 15 to 20 hours of activity. A provision that Martin Hirsch considers likely to “transforming a beneficiary into labor without rights”.
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“Reciprocal commitment contract”
“What we want is to allow all RSA beneficiaries to find a job”hammered the Prime Minister on the set of Télématin, who mentioned “a contract of reciprocal commitment with rights and duties” and confirmed these 15 to 20 hours of activity for all rights holders, “except in special cases” like the need for child care. Before continuing:
“It is not a question of making them work without paying them, but of allowing them to discover trades, to train if necessary. That’s the 15 to 20 hours we’re talking about. »
The device is already tested in “about twenty departments”. Launched in April in 18 departments (Seine-Saint-Denis decided to withdraw from the process), it concerns nearly 40,000 recipients.
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On the model of the youth employment contract, the recipients sign a contract with rights and duties, committing to following 15 to 20 hours of weekly activity (training, coaching, period of immersion in the company, workshop to carry out a personalized assessment…). According to Élisabeth Borne, this process is intended to be generalized to all of the 1.8 million beneficiaries of the Active Solidarity Income.
