France Travail is a new stage of the government's Full EmploymentObjective aimed at saturating the labor market to put pressure on wagesand provide employers with precarious employees. This new stage involvesthree essential processes: subordination to employers, privatization ofsupport, criminalization of the unemployed. ---- Medef dreamed of it,Emmanuel Macron did it: the public service is undergoing a newtransformation to put itself at the exclusive service of employers.France Travail is the culmination of a reflection begun in 2022, in thewake of Macron's new five-year term. We remember that already at thetime, the CFDT, the bosses' favorite union, welcomed the government'swill and project. A preliminary report was made public in April 2023 anda bill "for full employment" was then submitted to parliamentarians tobe finally adopted on November 14.Saturate the market with precarious employeesThe whole thing consists mainly of a new look for existing actors: mixedgovernance between the State, social partners and regional anddepartmental authorities, operators with Pôle emploi which becomesFrance Travail, France Travail jeunesse (formerly local missions) andFrance Travail handicap (formerly Cap emploi) and the partners who bringtogether private and public operators, joint organizations and associations.But it is necessary to remember that France Travail is part of thegovernment's "full employment objective", also formalized in September2022, which brings together the various reforms of unemploymentinsurance, pensions, Pôle emploi, learning and support for RSArecipients. We better understand the internal coherence of the project:putting all these beautiful people back to work by breaking socialconquests and providing the employers according to their needs. The FullEmployment Objective is to saturate the labor market with precariousemployees. The priority concerns the so-called sectors in tension, thosein which there is unmet demand from employers.By saturating these sectors and putting employees, the unemployedwithout compensation, students in apprenticeships and seniors deprivedof their pension into competition, we are organizing the sabotage ofsalary negotiations that would have been possible due to the shortage ofworkers. -work! Because its sectors - construction, catering, handling,personal service, etc. - almost systematically offer particularly poorsalary and working conditions. The Full Employment Objective thereforeamounts to making work, employees and the unemployed more precarious inorder to impose any job under any conditions in the exclusive interestof the bosses. In this context, France Travail becomes the truncheon ofultraliberal policy allowing the silencing of just wage and union demands.Another concomitant objective is to privatize support for theunemployed. It's an old fad of governments on both the left and theright: entrusting the support of the unemployed "close to employment" toprivate organizations and maintaining public support for the unemployed"those furthest from employment".Privatize supportWe no longer talk about efficiency, even if only in the service ofemployers, but about collusion with bosses. At the time of ANPE, theancestor of Pôle emploi, several studies had demonstrated without anypossible doubt the effectiveness of support provided internally ratherthan by these famous "private placement operators" (OPP), which had beengeneralized in 2000, when Nicole Notat, general secretary of the CFDT,co-chaired Unedic! Since then, the management of Pôle emploi hascontinued to organize the transfer of support activities for theunemployed to the OPP, a transfer regularly punctuated by scandals, themost recent of which - the Ferraci affair - well sums up the less thanvirtuous interests that exist behind this process. Behind the broadphrases of the law's alleged objectives, many elements remain to beclarified! All unemployed people - unemployed, young people, RSArecipients, disabled - will be required to register with France Travailwhich will then direct them to the "most suitable" operators. It is tobe feared that behind this obligation and the inflation of registeredpeople, we will finally end up devoting public resources to supportingthe most precarious in order to transfer all the others to the OPPs...What a juicy deal!Strengthening sanctionsWho says baton, says beating: an essential objective of the newstructure will be to formalize the coercive aspect of the employeremployment service. The personalized project for access to employmentleaves room for a reciprocal commitment contract. Of course,unemployment benefit or RSA may be temporarily suspended, in whole or inpart, or even permanently deleted when the beneficiary refuses withoutlegitimate reason to respect his employment contract: hear if he refusesan unworthy job or if he renounces unnecessary and humiliating supportand procedures.The 2018 decree already formalized the criminalization andjudicialization of the unemployed by inventing progressive sentences, astaggering of sanctions in the event of repeat offenses and aprobationary period of two years from the first sanction. And the doublepunishment with the definitive suppression of rights during a sanction,whereas previously they were "only" suspended. Since this decree, the"job search control" (CRE) services have continued to develop, furtherweakening the staff dedicated to supporting the unemployed, alreadylargely structurally understaffed. since the creation of Pôle emploi in2008.France Travail now has a new boss: Thibaut Guilluy, former HighCommissioner for Employment and Business Engagement who oversaw thedevelopment of the new structure. There is no doubt that this former HECstudent with teeth that scratch the floor will know how to invest allhis energy in implementing the Holy Trinity at the heart of FranceTravail: subordination to employers, privatization of support,criminalization of the unemployed.Concerning the financing of the new structure, you should know that Pôleemploi was already two-thirds financed by Unédic. Let us remember thatUnédic, based on the Social Security model, was a structure managed bytrade unions and employers' organizations, supplemented by socialcontributions and then paying unemployment benefits. It is a structuredeemed archaic by political power that must be dismantled in order totransfer its prerogatives within the state apparatus. Macron is activelyworking on this. He had already eliminated employee contributions in2019 to replace them with the CSG, a disguised tax. Since the same year,it has imposed frameworks on the social partners that are impossible torespect in order to be able to replace them and reform compensation forthe unemployed by decree. The government's new framework letter requiresUnédic to increase its contribution from 11 to 13%, as well as anadditional contribution of 2 billion on 2024 surpluses and 2 billion on2026 surpluses.It is a real hold-up which requires Unedic to increase its debt on thefinancial markets. It is also a real war tactic that kills three birdswith one stone: by drying up Unédic's revenues, the State withdraws fromfinancing France Travail, endangering Unédic's financial balance, thusdiscrediting the structure while justifying new reforms of compensationto the disadvantage of the unemployed!A solution: work less to work allIf the government really wanted to fight unemployment, it would start byreducing working hours. Many economists seek to assess the number ofpotential jobs that a further reduction in working hours to 32 hourscould generate. Depending on the studies, we expect between two and fourmillion! One thing is certain: with France Travail, the government'sobjective is not to end unemployment, but to attack the unemployed.Franz Müller (UCL Paris northeast)https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Une-machine-de-guerre-contre-les-chomeur-ses_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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