The government announced on Monday the launch of a new national plan to combat illegal work for the period 2023-2027, with 34 measures to "better control", "better sanction" and "repair damages". This plan was presented by Olivier Dussopt on the occasion of the Interministerial Anti-Fraud Committee devoted to the fight against illegal work, said the Ministry of Labour in a statement.
It aims to coordinate the action of State services around "two priority objectives": "better control" - which involves "targeting, prioritizing and strengthening controls" - and "better sanctioning, better recovery and reparation of damages related to illegal work". Among the 34 measures, the plan intends to "ensure the exemplarity of major sporting events" such as the Rugby World Cup and the Olympics in 2024, with controls but also the publication of guides, for example on the rules governing the use of volunteering.
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It also intends to "better prevent fraud in posted workers" by informing employers and employees "of their obligations and rights", while in 2021, excluding road transport, "200,000 employees were posted at least once in France by companies established abroad", the country being one of the main EU Member States receiving such workers. The plan also provides for simplifying the so-called "black list" system, i.e. a penalty for disseminating court decisions on a single website of the Ministry of Labour convicting a natural or legal person.
It intends to "fight against false statuses" (such as false self-employed via the use of the auto/micro-entrepreneur regime for salaried jobs) in particular by developing common strategies vis-à-vis certain digital platforms. In addition, there are actions to combat trafficking in human beings and the prevention of situations of undignified housing, or the implementation of a new cyber-investigation power for the investigation and detection of illegal work offences on the Internet. Other measures should allow workers to be further "restored to their rights" or "advance the recovery of fines imposed and contributions evaded".