Employment contract, France Travail… What changes for RSA beneficiaries on January 1

There is something new for beneficiaries of active solidarity income (RSA). As of January 1, 2025, the approximately 1.84 million people without resources registered with this system will have to apply new rules passed in December 2023 in the law for full employment. TF1info takes stock.

Automatic registration with France Travail

From this date, all RSA beneficiaries will be automatically registered with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi). A major change: according to data reported by AFP, only 40% of them are today. According to the same source, around 1.2 million additional people will therefore be registered as job seekers, including 200,000 young people in the integration process in the local missions of the departments.

These new job seekers will first be placed in a “waiting category” newly created named G, the time to be distributed into one of the categories from A to F at the end of their orientation interview. Category F is also new and reserved for people “on a social integration journey”according to France Travail and the Ministries of Labor and Solidarity.

Signature of an “engagement contract”

In addition to this registration with France Travail, RSA beneficiaries will have to sign an “engagement contract” specifying social and professional integration objectives. This contract will include a controversial promise from Emmanuel Macron in 2022: the possibility of having between 15 and 20 hours per week of activities, including interviews, training, internships or immersions in a company.

This contract will be personalized and “these 15 hours are not a condition for the granting of an allowance, it is an element within the employment contract co-constructed between the person and the referring organization”according to the same sources. This system has already been tested in recent months and concerned more than 70,000 people in 49 departments.

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The final evaluation report of the experiment published in November by the Ministry of Labor notes, however, that the objective of 15 to 20 hours of activity “stimulates reflections and debates among professionals and beneficiaries”. “The administrative constraint of traceability of 15-20 hours is difficult to justify and can affect the relationship of trust with beneficiaries, or in certain cases even lead to renouncing the RSA. In practice, the achievement of this objective is uneven, more accessible for beneficiaries close to employment”points to the evaluation. Positive point, “the strengthening of self-confidence and the ability to act are very often observed” among beneficiaries.