Emmanuel Macron suggested that RSA beneficiaries work a few hours to reintegrate. The department of Isère subsidizes at 47%, employers who have signed a CDI with 174 former RSA recipients out of the 22,000 in this territory.
Alexandre Rivoirein his fifties who was an executive in industry and Johnathan30 years old who had stopped school in college, benefited from the Departmental integration contract in business. The first is in the process of becoming an accountant, the second, a florist, already on a permanent contract. They are part of the 174 contracts helped by the departmental council of Isère to give work to the recipients of the RSA, for a CDD of 6 or 12 months of which approximately half of the salary is supported by the community. Employers often designate them as more efficient than some school-leavers. More motivated.
It had been a few years, I was at the RSA and I was looking for training to find a job that I would like.
Johnathan trained in horticulture. “I haven’t missed a single day, he says proudly, I did a lot of internships in horticulture. My horticulturist who is in Saint-Martin-d’Hères told me to go see a florist in Sassenage. I came to talk to her and I insisted.” In the beginning, Eric Rico, the boss was not too keen. One day Johnathan offers to help him unload a truck. However, he did not know him. “OK, I’m taking you on an internship” Eric finally told him. “And from there, I started the internships. Afterwards, there were the helpers for a six-month fixed-term contract, then a second. Then, at the end, I ended up with a CDI. I’ve been here for a year and work every day.”
He quit college
Johnathan had been at the RSA for “two or three years“, he recalls. “I had quit school in middle school. Well, afterwards, I had a lot of family problems and I had to manage all that. So it took me a long time too. And then I started, in a training of five months. I motivated my group, I always told them not to give up, even when we’re down. This is where you have to be the strongest. You have to be ready to make sacrifices too, to get up early, at any time. It’s a very hard and difficult job, but afterwards, when you’re really passionate, I think there’s no limit. What more can be said? Thanks to my boss for being there for me. To have me was also supported too “.
The testimony of Alexandre Rivoire, former manager in the industry
There are a lot of people like me who have the motivation and everything. But we are faced with a wall and after a while, we no longer know where to look. We are no longer really helped in quotation marks. Afterwards, when we are fixed on what we want to do, it is easier. There is a whole system in place. But when you haven’t done this first phase, I can tell you that it’s very, very, very complicated. And that is why, among other things, we are very motivated. Because when we see that there is a company like AD quo which gives us the chance and that employees really take their time, even though they have not been trained for that, we have to give them back what they give us. So we make sure to be at the level as quickly as possible, to be able to help them.
The RSA just allows you to pay the rent. We don’t eat, we don’t shop, we don’t play, we don’t have petrol.
“In fact, we are in a very complicated situation. Being recipients of the RSA. Admittedly, it brings us a small fund, but which just allows us to pay the rent in the end. So, we don’t eat, we don’t shop , no leisure, no petrol. I had reached the end of my allowances. I had no other choice but to survive, but to function with the RSA. Which allowed me to keep my accommodation. I wouldn’t have had accommodation, I wouldn’t be there, that’s for sure. We’re not going to do CVs without taking a shower”
It was through contacts that I was told that, precisely, in accounting, we were looking for a link with the firm. So that’s how I got that contact. And the contract helped, it was the firm that told me about it, first, and I was just coming out of a situation where I remained bedridden for three years. It’s very, very difficult to get back on your feet and you may have been educated with work values, etc. And when you’re interviewing people, and nothing concrete comes out. In the end, we have a waste of time for them, as for us and it is not progressing.