Unemployment, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Obligations of jobseekers: Repeal the France Travail act and the 15 h of mandatory activity
Direction of change: abolition of a scheme, compared with current law.
The lever. What is required in return for the benefit: job search, offers to be accepted, sanctions in the event of refusal. Direction rule: ↑ tougher obligations and sanctions.
« Abroger la loi France Travail et l’obligation de réaliser 15h d’activités hebdomadaires contre le revenu de remplacement (allocation-chômage, RSA, ASS, etc.) »1Translation by the editorsRepeal the France Travail act and the obligation to carry out 15 hours of weekly activities in return for replacement income (unemployment benefit, RSA, ASS, etc.)
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No cost-schedule parameter for this position: see the costing for the reason.
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Announced by the candidate
not announced
The programme does not cost this measure.
Published costings
none
No external costing of this position recorded to date.
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Lever with no coefficient in the cost schedule: the position is compared, not costed.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Act No. 2023-1196 of 18 December 2023 for full employment: since 1 January 2025, all RSA (minimum income) recipients are automatically registered with France Travail and sign a commitment contract. The amendment of 25 February 2026 provides for intensive follow-up after a negotiated termination (rupture conventionnelle).
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. Budgetary effects are purely behavioural (exits, sanctions): excluded from static costing. The cost of support by France Travail has not been recorded.
- service-public.gouv.fr, RSA (F502): « depuis le 1er janvier 2025, chaque bénéficiaire du RSA est inscrit automatiquement à France Travail et doit signer un contrat d'engagement »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- L’Avenir en commun (édition 2025), p. 36. Open the document at this page.
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