A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #345 - Spotlight: Forced labor for RS beneficiaries (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Fifteen hours of minimum activity per week for RSA beneficiaries, their 
spouses and probably soon anyone registered with Pôle emploi: the 
generalization of forced labor! ---- Since the end of the 1990s and the 
mass increase in unemployment, the political and economic powers, 
supported by a few social partners prone to betrayal, have continued to 
hold the unemployed responsible for their situation. So of course, with 
the creation of France Travail, the government is obviously determined 
to strengthen the arsenal of sanctions that will be available to operators.

In April, Thibaut Guilluy, at the time High Commissioner for Employment 
and Business Engagement, new boss of France Travail, clearly announced 
the forced activity of 15 to 20 hours per week for RSA recipients. The 
brutalization of the economic system is reaching new heights!

While the RSA was considered a solidarity income and attempted a vague 
social compromise in the face of the inexorable massification of 
unemployment structurally imposed by the irrationality of the capitalist 
system, it is now considered the ultimate blackmail of senseless 
economic slavery!

But if the government is able to provide forced labor to populations in 
sufficient difficulty to try to survive with the RSA, why and how does 
it not do fairly paid work within the framework of a legally recognized 
contract? The discourse then evolved: backpedaling on the theme of 
activity, the minimum 15 hours became job search procedures, training 
actions or company internships.

The government's approach remains the same: providing businesses with 
underpaid workers, a process consistent with all the reforms of the Full 
Employment Objective.

Spouses also affected
Remember that according to the research department of evaluation studies 
and statistics (Dress), 40% of RSA beneficiaries are hampered in their 
job search efforts for health reasons, and 30% due to concerns about 
mobility: hearing that they don't even know how to afford a bus ticket!

After six months of experimentation in 18 departments on the new support 
for RSA beneficiaries, there are no convincing results concerning the 
increase in the rate of return to employment, but we note that a quarter 
of the beneficiaries participating in it were sanctioned, even though 
the sanctions linked to the 15 hours of activity have not yet been applied!

But the infamy does not stop there: the spouses of the beneficiaries 
will be affected! You read correctly: spouses! It remains to be seen how 
this obligation will be implemented, but this obviously opens the door 
to interference in the private domain and the family sphere worthy of 
the most authoritarian states.

The icing on the cake is that the text of the law remains vague enough 
to be generalized when the time comes to all unemployed people 
registered with Pôle emploi!

The text provides, via article 2, a minimum of 15 hours of weekly 
activity for any person "registered on the list of job seekers with the 
operator France Travail", after study of their individual situation. As 
it stands, we are facing a potential and tragic generalization of forced 
labor for all employees deprived of employment.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Travail-force-pour-les-beneficiaires-du-RSA
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