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In Reunion, Emmanuel Macron chained sequences and opportunities to meet citizens who have expressed their expectations while poverty and unemployment are wreaking havoc. He also announced measures to promote employment.
Arrested unceremoniously, shaken verbally, sometimes even tutelated. During his day in La Réunion, Emmanuel Macron was confronted with the reality of an anger expressed often without filter, reports our special correspondent , Valérie Gas . He was certainly expecting it and did not want to see anything negative about it. " I was very challenged this morning, this afternoon.I do not take this at all as a sign of disrespect. "
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In this moment of his quinquennate, after the yellow vests crisis, Emmanuel Macron can not minimize anger so he tries to make sense of it. " When there is anger, when there is mobilization, when we come to challenge elected officials, there is something to transform ," he continues. Because anger can become enthusiasm, the ability to mobilize. That means that, in any case, there is an energy that is there. "
Positive to advance is the will of the President of the Republic: " Me, what struck me in many young people is that first, there is a tremendous spirit of responsibility. In the young Camellias, where I was this morning, I saw, above all, a youth who is not happy with her fate, but who decided to take herself and who is demanding with herself and with we, rightly so. So what do we owe him ? A speech of truth, an answer in depth. School, training, employment and economic activity, that's the real answer. "
Frank Jobs
In terms of employment, the device he has mentioned at every opportunity is the free jobs, which exempt employers of expenses. As part of a plan called "Jobs Meeting", this device will be extended to the entire island, giving the opportunity to cumulate RSA and part-time employment. It will offer employers 15,000 euros over three years for permanent employment of a long-term unemployed person or enrolled in an insertion scheme.
In addition, to compensate for the decline in subsidized jobs decided in 2017 - which were then more than 20,000 - the Head of State announced that the " skills job paths " that replaced them would be stabilized at 12,000 per year. On the other hand, the payment of RSA, so far provided by the department of Reunion, will be from 2020 paid by the State, which will represent an additional effort of 140 million over three years.
This aid will be added to the exemption of employers' contributions up to twice the amount of the SMIC in certain sectors considered as priority in the overseas territories: agri-food, agriculture, tourism ... A measure voted in the night by the Assembly at the request of the Government and that the Head of State announced by landing on the island.