“Winning work” : it’s with this slogan that the president of the Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, offered, on January 7, his financial program, allegedly breaking with the coverage pursued by the governments of Emmanuel Macron for nearly 9 years. On evaluation, nevertheless, his proposals seem extra like a hardening of the latter, and this, with none lesson having been realized from what have to be thought-about as a failure.
Failed, the 2017 ordinances, which eliminated 4 “criteria of arduousness”exactly these the place French working circumstances are the worst in comparison with our neighbors.
Failure, the struggle towards unemployment, whereas the President of the Republic claimed to meet up with the very best European college students. Certainly, the French unemployment fee fell considerably, going from 9.5% within the third quarter of 2017 to 7.1% – its lowest level – within the first quarter of 2023. At that point, nevertheless, we have been very removed from the German, Dutch or Danish unemployment charges (3.2%, 3.5% and 5.2% in 2023) or that of the European Union (6.1%). Worse, whereas the slayer of the French social mannequin was pleased with having created 2 million jobs, practically 40% of those have been defined by the explosion within the variety of apprenticeship contracts whose prohibitive price for public funds (25 billion euros per 12 months) was accompanied by appreciable windfall results. Another a part of these jobs is made up of microentrepreneurs, whose quantity has elevated considerably, however whose dwelling circumstances are lower than fascinating: 670 euros of earnings monthly on common…
Failure, the so-called coverage of work first (“work first”), previously advocated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based on which even a really poor high quality job could be higher than no job in any respect and which consists of accelerating sanctions towards the unemployed or these receiving minimal social advantages, thought-about as lazy or fraudsters to “encourage” them to return to the job market. Since 2017, French governments have managed to cut back the safety supplied by unemployment insurance coverage. Evaluations confirmed that this tightening resulted in much less entry to compensation for folks on short-term contracts, the youngest and folks with low {qualifications}. Great success!
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