the National Assembly votes to perpetuate the system | EUROtoday

The National Assembly unanimously authorized at first studying, Tuesday January 27 within the night, the perpetuation of the “Territories with zero long-term unemployment” experiment and its integration into frequent legislation.

The invoice proposed by the Vosges deputy (Liberties, independents, abroad and territories) Stéphane Viry was adopted by 96 votes (23 abstentions). She will now proceed her journey within the Senate.

Established by legislation in 2016, this experiment which is predicated on the concept that “no one is unemployable”permits voluntary territories “from 5 to 10,000 inhabitants” to create “employment businesses” (EBE), which recruits people who find themselves completely faraway from employment on a everlasting foundation.

It was prolonged in 2020 and was in precept because of finish on June 30, 2026, to the nice dismay of the numerous deputies who help the initiative, and of the roughly 4,000 individuals employed inside one of many 83 Territories with zero long-term unemployment created. But an modification retained as a part of the budgetary dialogue ought to make it potential to increase the experiment till the top of the 12 months, based on the Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou.

A tool thought-about helpful however costly

And Mr. Viry’s invoice, largely rewritten by way of 4 authorities amendments, ought to enable a “sustainability” of the gadget, with a “dedicated chapter in the labor code”he stated in entrance of the deputies.

The authorities’s amendments consider, particularly, for the evolution of the governance of “territories with zero unemployment”from a report by the Court of Auditors printed in June 2025, which underlined the usefulness of the experiment whereas highlighting the excessive value for public funds (28,000 euros per full-time equal in 2023, greater than different integration schemes).

The textual content gives particularly that the “employment businesses” set up conventions beneath the aegis of prefects and division presidents. A prerogative wherein environmentalist and “rebellious” teams have denounced a “right of veto” of the prefect which may penalize territories able to launch.