Question 1288 — employment and activity

Summary

Ms. Muriel Ressiguier questions the Minister of Labor about the Government's decision to freeze subsidized contracts with retroactive effect from July 1, 2017. As a reminder, in March 2017, INSEE confirmed that the scourge of unemployment affected 6,567,000 people in all categories, including the French Overseas Territories and Overseas Territories, registered with the employment center, 1.2 million of whom declared that they had been looking for work for at least a year. This level of mass unemployment is unacceptable in the 5th largest economy in the world. For DARES, in its full report of the same month, the true figure for the number of unemployed (low range) would be around 11 million if we count in addition to those registered with the employment center, the invisible unemployed: 1 million beneficiaries of the RSA (only 840,000 are registered with the employment center out of the 1,840,000 beneficiaries), 1 million beneficiaries of the activity bonus (on the 2.45 million beneficiaries, excluded from the RSA statistics because they are looking for stable and non-precarious employment), 1.1 million beneficiaries of the AAH or a disability pension (not registered with Pôle emploi despite an ability and desire to work) and 1.4 million people without rights (young people under 25, first-time job seekers), students looking for small food jobs, without rights due to exceeding the ceilings of resources in the household, beneficiaries of survivor's pensions or alimony which exceed the RSA ceilings. In addition, according to the latest figures from INSEE, there are 8.77 million people living below the poverty line, or more than 14% of the population. The question then becomes how to combat unemployment, and urgently. For the first quarter of 2017, there were 473,000 people who benefited from a subsidized contract. Still according to DARES, “67% of people leaving a CUI-CIE in 2014 and 41% of people leaving a CUI-CAE were in employment” six months after the end of their subsidized contract. It therefore concludes that there is a real short-term effect of subsidized contracts on integration through employment. Currently, even if subsidized contract systems vary depending on the type of contract, the target audiences to be helped or the duration determined by contracts, overall public financial aid is only between 12,000 and 40,000 euros per job. Let us also remember that for the LIEPP laboratory (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Evaluation of Public Policies), responsible for evaluating the impact of the CICE on employment and wages, a maximum of 100,000 jobs were created or saved for a State “investment” of 27 billion euros, or 270,000 euros. per job. If subsidized contracts are obviously not a panacea, the Minister's decision to eliminate 150,000 of them (by freezing the number of subsidized contracts on July 1 at 300,000 instead of the 450,000 initially planned) without replacing them with new schemes or openings of positions in public bodies or national education where until now they filled a deficiency in the State, is unacceptable! It is therefore the double punishment for local authorities or educational establishments which have real needs and which cruelly lack the means to carry out missions of general interest and solidarity and a hard blow for the associative world. This is why she is questioning him to find out what levers the Government plans to implement to effectively combat mass unemployment and ensure the right to work for all.

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