Question 11196 — employment and activity

Summary

Ms. Aurélie Trouvé alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Families to the deterioration of the support conditions for people receiving active solidarity income (RSA) in Seine-Saint-Denis. Seine-Saint-Denis hosts a large population covered by the RSA, the benefit of which concerns 11.5% of inhabitants in 2020; the number of beneficiaries then stood at 99,000, an increase of 42% over ten years. So far, support for RSA beneficiaries was the subject of a specific system built around “employment integration projects” (PIE), present in each municipality. The department initiated their replacement with another system after signing the agreement with the State to recentralize the financing of the service. As a replacement for PIEs, whose municipalities are ordered to close the counters before the end of 2023, local integration agencies (ALI) are being opened in the region. Ultimately numbering 15, or one for two to three municipalities, they will form a coarser network than that of the PIEs. Only six are open today, while PIE closures are increasing, like that of Lilas in the constituency of the deputy. This is undoubtedly a step backwards in terms of the accessibility of places of integration, in a territory where intra-departmental transport is insufficient, while RSA recipients are less mobile than the average Dyonisian inhabitants. Among the concerns is also the choice to open the management of these ALIs to private actors, selected within the framework of public offers. First of all, there is the question of the future of the staff and agents of the current PIE; although trained professionals, whose skills are recognized, they could be transferred, in the case of incumbents, or abandoned to their fate in the case of contract workers. Within the ALIs, they could be replaced by internally trained personnel, within a few months and sometimes on a work-study basis. The choice to subcontract the professional integration policy to private operators, which the “full employment” bill intends to strengthen, also arouses many of concerns: the risk of failure of the public service in the event of default of one or other of the structures and possible discontinuities in the territory if the agencies offer services of unequal nature and quality, which will create a break in equality. Potential conflicts of interest, too, in structures which are in some cases controlled by local business leaders. Questions, finally, as to the transparency and accountability of these subcontractors towards citizens and elected bodies in the municipalities and neighborhoods concerned... The prospect of a deterioration of the public service of professional integration appears catastrophic: the reform of unemployment insurance has already restricted the access of people deprived of employment to compensation and reduced its duration by 25%. The recent pension reform will return 150 to 200,000 more people dependent on social minimums in the country. She therefore wishes to know what measures are planned by the State to ensure the quality of the services provided by the organizations to which support for RSA beneficiaries is subcontracted and to guarantee the integration of PIE staff into the systems currently being created.

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