The right-wing Senate adopted Tuesday, with modifications, a bill from the presidential majority aimed at increasing the “
zero long-term unemployed
” experiment from 10 to 60 territories
.
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The text was voted on at first reading by show of hands, with the votes of the LR, centrist, RDPI (ex LREM), RDSE with a radical majority and Independent groups.
It had been adopted unanimously in the National Assembly.
Although supporting the experiment, the left voted against it.
The PS regretted not having obtained "
all the desired guarantees
", while the Communist-majority CRCE and the ecologists deplored a bill "
far removed from the original spirit
" of the experiment.
Deputies and Senators will now try to agree on a common text, failing which a new reading will be organized in each of the chambers, the last word going to the Assembly.
The Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne defended "
a text necessary in this period of uncertainty and increased difficulties for the most precarious
", wishing to see it "
succeed as soon as possible
".
The idea of the "
TZCLD
" is to mobilize the sums intended for unemployment compensation to finance employment-
oriented
companies (EBE) which recruit long-term unemployed on permanent contracts, paid at the minimum wage for socially useful activities and not competing with existing jobs.
The proposed law aims to extend to 50 new territories, for 5 years, an experiment launched in early 2017 and carried out today in ten “
territories
” of 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants.
They host 13 EBEs employing more than 800 employees in market gardening, logging, metal recycling or bicycle repair.
