At a time when the health crisis has greatly shaken our economic fabric, an unprecedented social crisis immediately follows. It will strike even more brutally the most fragile among us, who are today more and more numerous. One million more job seekers since the start of the crisis!
Inclusive social enterprises, from integration to disability, have been present throughout this period of confinement to participate in the collective effort of resilience, particularly with the most precarious employees. Masks, gels, solidarity meals, food aid, support for isolated people…
Inclusive social enterprises are one of the first bulwarks of the social crisis.But inclusive social enterprises are above all… businesses! Employers, economic actors, who are taking the full brunt of this crisis. However, they must already be the first line.
They constitute one of the first bulwarks of the social crisis which is coming by employing more than 300,000 people in fragile or handicapped situations, and they will have to respond, once again, to the challenges that are coming soon.
Every day, the government announces support or recovery plans, and several tens of billions of euros are already committed to support essential sectors of our country.
Will the inclusion sector be forgotten? The one who will undoubtedly also be one of the essentials of tomorrow?
The support and recovery plan, worked in concert with all the networks representing inclusion and the public authorities, was never born. However, it does not require an extra euro, just new rules for the allocation of credits that were already allocated to the sector for 2020.
To wait puts inclusive social enterprises at risk, to wait deprives us of their ability to bounce back, to wait becomes indecent.All of us, social entrepreneurs, inclusive, committed, with mission, employee representatives, all of us who want to work for a more united world, a renewed economy where our values rhyme economic, social and environmental, we cannot admit that inclusion is forgotten when it is even more essential.
We all ask for immediate support, because with zero budgetary impact these actors of inclusion create an extraordinary economic and social impact. Could we imagine putting a strain on a budget for the most vulnerable, one part of the poverty strategy to bail out elsewhere? Investing today means saving tomorrow!
To wait puts inclusive social enterprises at risk, to wait deprives us of their ability to bounce back, to wait becomes indecent.
We, committed actors and entrepreneurs, were present on the ground and supported them during the crisis. We, committed actors and entrepreneurs reaffirm that this sector is essential for tomorrow where everyone will have to take their share of the effort alongside inclusive social enterprises on the front line.
We companies and all of you, public decision-makers, communities, regional players, learn from this crisis: share the priorities of tomorrow, combine economic and social, performance and solidarity, fully support the recovery plan for inclusive social enterprises.
* This platform is signed by Claude Alphandéry , ESS Lab; Bertrand Badré , Blue Orange Capital; Sébastien Bazin , Accor - Philippe Beauchamps, Ramery; Laurent Berger , CFDT; Isabelle Bianchi , Regain; Frédéric Bierry , Departmental Council of Bas-Rhin; Alexandre Bompard , Carrefour; Jean-Laurent Bonnafé , BNP Paribas; Jean-Marc Borello , SOS Group; Pamela Bryant , Deastance Services; Christophe Catoir , The Adecco Group; Christophe Chevalier , Archer Group; Thierry Chiche , Elsan; Patrick Choux , ID'EES Group; André Comte-Sponville , Philosopher; Jean-François Connan , Adecco Groupe France; Sylvain Couthier , ATF Gaia; François Dechy , Philippe Delpech , Sonepar, Baluchon; André Dupon , Vitamin T; Jean-François Dutilleul , Rabot-Dutilleul Group; Emmanuel Faber , Danone; Stéphane Foisy , TPC; Antoine Frérot , Veolia; Bernard Gainnier , PwC France and Maghreb; Luc de Gardelle Altaïr Group; Charles Gardou , Anthropologist; Cyril Gayssot , FMS; Pascale Ghio , New attitude; Nathalie Jaoui , Crit Intérim; Alexandre Jost , La Fabrique Spinoza; Daniel Lafrance , Brittany workshops; Laurent Laïk , La Varappe; Pascale Lecoq , ACVO; Jean-Louis Leduc , APAJH; Jean-Claude Le Grand , L'Oréal; Jean-Bernard Lévy , EDF; Laurence Méhaignerie , Citizen Capital; Tania Meyer , ADAPEI The White Butterflies of Alsace; Laurent Mignon , BPCE; Jean Moreau , Phoenix; Sébastien Moriceau , Humando Group; Hervé Navellou , L'Oréal France; Anna Notarianni , Sodexo France; Laurent Pinet , Ulysse; Carlo Purassanta , Microsoft France; Sébastien Raynaud , Recyclea; André Renaudin , AG2R La Mondiale, Fatima Riahi , Jardins de la Montagne Verte; Jean-Louis Ribes , DSI; Stéphane Richard , Orange; Alain Rochon , APF France Handicap; Augustin de Romanet , ADP; Eva Sadoun , LITA.co; Jean-Jacques Salaün , Inditex; Nicolas Théry, Credit Mutuel; Jean-Pascal Tricoire , Schneider Electric; Arnaud Vaissié , International SOS; Gilles Vermot Desroches , 100 Chances 100 Emplois; Dominique Schelcher , Système U, Claire Waysand , Engie.