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RSA recipients will be offered 15 to 20 hours of work or training per week on a case-by-case basis if the full employment bill is passed. 18 departments are already experimenting with the system.
RSA recipient at 63, a situation that an unemployed executive did not think he would live one day. “We can be at the top of the ladder and tomorrow, go down at the bottom of the ladder”, he confides. Survivor of a serious illness two years ago, he finds himself unemployed, it is not easy to get back on track. At the beginning of the year, the Loiret department, which pays him his RSA every month, offers to support him in his research with training workshops and interviews. Support that could soon become compulsory for all recipients, i.e. 1.9 million people.
“Remobilize RSA recipients”
The department has volunteered to make this follow-up mandatory this summer. For its president, the time has come to hold recipients to account. “In the past, the bosses did not need labor and therefore did not rush to hire. Today, there are many bosses who seek and do not always find. (…) We must remobilize the recipients of the RSA to put them back on the path to employment”, supports Marc Gaudet, president of the Loiret departmental council. A feeling that not all departments share, such as the president of Ille-et-Vilaine who does not see himself sanctioning people who are already precarious. The reform of the RSA and Pôle emploi should take place by 2025.