The “prim'ojob” system will be discussed during the budget guidelines debate on Thursday and Friday.
The elected socialists and ecologists already strongly criticize this measure.
The exchanges promise to be tense in the hemicycle. Thursday and Friday, as part of the debate on budgetary orientations, the elected representatives of the Pays-de-la-Loire regional council will look into a new aid of 200 euros that the president Christelle Morancais (LR) wishes to pay to students who have a small job to finance their studies. A measure "to enhance merit" according to her, already qualified by the opposition as an "unworthy decision".
Concretely, the device called “prim'ojob” is one of the “five punch-down measures” of a larger plan to improve access to employment.
It is aimed at all salaried students who have worked for at least two months in a year, including summer jobs.
“The objective is to reward their efforts while highlighting the value of work,” estimates Christelle Mor Anglais.
It is a little help, which can be renewed from one year to the next, while two out of ten students have a job next to their studies.
“A logic that is intended to be very far from a young RSA, which some communities are beginning to experience.
"Leading cause of failure at university"
"With this bonus, the right does not reward, it encourages a terrible model of society, considers for its part the twelve elected members of the socialist opposition, led by Guillaume Garot.
It condemns young people to odd jobs and precarious work.
We have to come to our senses: a student must first be able to concentrate on his studies.
"An opinion shared by the environmental group, which will vote against this plan and qualifies the measure as" provocation ".
“To fight against the precariousness of young people, we need to provide more support, especially the most vulnerable,” said Lucie Etonno, co-president of the Ecology Together group,
which proposes, for example, the implementation of mobility aids.
The economic, social and environmental council of Pays-de-la-Loire is not very enthusiastic either, in particular because it is "not convinced of its impact on the difficulties of recruiting sectors in tension".
In his opinion, he reiterates that “the forced student wage system is the first cause of failure at the university”, and rather recommends “to support the scholarship system and to encourage the fair remuneration of internships carried out in connection with the subject of the studies ”.
Finally, he estimates that "in view of student precariousness, the sum of 200 euros per year, if it may be welcome for students who exercise seasonal work in the summer, cannot meet their needs when they are in salaried employment. constrained to the year ”.
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