Four associations representing Social Enterprises Mandated for Integration (ESMI) in Brussels sounded the alarm this Monday. According to them, nearly 2,700 jobs are directly threatened within 106 companies.
Four associations representing Social Enterprises Mandated for Integration (ESMI) in Brussels urgently sounded the alarm on Monday: in the absence of a decision from the Brussels government during its last session before Christmas, more than 2,700 direct jobs are directly threatened within 106 companies of this type and risk falling by the wayside as of January 1st.
Budget cuts
According to the Brussels Federation of Socio-professional Integration Companies (FéBISP), its Dutch-speaking counterpart FeBIO, RESSOURCE, and ConcertES, the Brussels government in current affairs has been slow, for many weeks, to take its responsibilities and is exposing ESMIs to cuts budgetary issues which quite simply threaten their survival.
If this situation persists, thousands of beneficiaries, but also workers in socio-professional integration, will lose their job or their training opportunity from January 1, 2025, further aggravating social inequalities and exclusion in Brussels. In addition to the 2,700 jobs threatened, around a hundred socio-professional integration companies risk simply going out of business.
It could cost two to three times more
For these representative associations, it is urgent that political leaders, whether they are in current affairs or engaged in negotiations for the formation of the future government, take decisions that meet the challenges facing Brussels. The decision to make “could incidentally cost the Region two to three times more“, within a few months.
For his part, the outgoing Brussels Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, Bernard Clerfayt (DéFI), clarified that he had been working for weeks on a solution to the problem. According to him, the government in current affairs reached an agreement on Thursday to extend by one year the mandate of social enterprises which received a mandate for integration.
Mr. Clerfayt, however, recalled that it was up to the next government to make a more lasting decision.
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