While the number of category A job seekers increased by 1.43% in November compared to the previous month according to Dares data published Thursday December 26, this should jump with the automatic registration of more than 1.2 million additional people at France Travail from January 1. A sudden increase caused by the application of certain measures of the law for full employment adopted in 2023 which will come into force from the start of 2025, inducing numerous changes for job seekers.
Will be affected by these new registrations:
The people above will not have to take any action. They should therefore receive a letter or an email attesting to their registration on the list of job seekers. New RSA beneficiaries should receive it after their request for an allowance from the CAF.
Newly registered on the lists of job seekers will be directed to the services of France Travail but also to local missions, Cap emploi or an organization designated by the departmental council depending on their situation. They should then be subject to “a global diagnostic interview” during which an employment contract will be signed, periodically updated, in which the actions and obligations of the registrant to find employment will be specified.
The support available for training and returning to employment will also be mentioned as well as the “exchange terms” between the job seeker and his advisor.
By this employment contract, those concerned will also be subject to an obligation to carry out “a weekly duration of activity […] of at least fifteen hours »as indicated in article 2 of the full employment law. This duration should however be modulated for certain registrants “encountering particular and proven difficulties, due to their state of health, their disability, their disability or their situation as a single parent without a childcare solution for a child under the age of twelve. »
These activities should include training, periods of discovery of professions, procedures for access to rights, applications, job search assistance workshops or “any other action related to its access to employment project”, specifies a press release from France Travail.
Although France Travail indicates in its press release that “these 15 hours of activities are not a condition for the granting of an allowance, but rather an element of the employment contract”article L. 5412-1.-I clearly specifies that the replacement income as well as the allowances granted to young people accompanied on a local mission or in CEJ “are suspended or deleted, in whole or in part, or the job seeker is removed from the list of job seekers […] depending on the breaches observed, their frequency and the nature of the income or allowance received by the job seeker. »
A situation that the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) recently expressed concern about. In a declaration adopted on December 19, the institution responsible for monitoring respect for human rights by France declared that “the obligation of hours of activity in return for the RSA violates human rights”. The CNCDH considers that the timetable obligation attacks in particular the right to “adequate means of existence” registered in the Preamble of the 1946 Constitution by the conditioning of the payment “from a minimum subsistence income to the achievement of a counterpart. » The Commission also deplores the attack on the right to “freely chosen social and professional integration” provided for in the European Social Charter by compulsory registration with France Travail and “the establishment of “hours of activity” to be carried out”.
To support the implementation of this engagement contract and the duration of activity that accompanies it, the government is based on the results of an experiment carried out since 2023 in 49 departments. Submitted in November and only relaying the results of 8 departments, it appears incomplete in the eyes of the CNCDH, recalling at the same time that it “It is advisable not to generalize a system which has not proven its effectiveness”.
