The variety of job seekers stabilizes within the first quarter of 2024 | EUROtoday

After a half-year improve within the second a part of 2023, the variety of job seekers with none exercise (class A) was nearly steady within the first quarter of 2024 in France (excluding Mayotte). According to figures printed Thursday April 25 by the statistics division of the Ministry of Labor (Dares), the speed is down barely by 0.1%, bringing the variety of individuals registered to three.028 million (– 4,300 registered, in comparison with the final trimestre).

Including decreased exercise (classes B and C), the variety of job seekers can also be steady within the first quarter in comparison with the earlier quarter (+2,600 registered), and stands at 5.4 million. This stability in unemployment comes after two quarters of consecutive will increase, with a 0.6% improve in the summertime of 2023 and + 0.2% within the fall. Over one yr, the variety of unemployed with out exercise elevated by 0.1% within the first quarter and the full variety of job seekers, together with decreased exercise, by 0.6%.

In mainland France, unemployment amongst younger individuals beneath 25 continued to extend, though much less rapidly than within the fourth quarter of 2023. It elevated by 0.5% over the quarter and 5.3% over one yr. On the opposite hand, that of these aged 50 and over fell by 0.5% over the quarter, and by 1.8% over one yr.

New unemployment insurance coverage reform to return

The figures for the tip of 2023, which introduced the unemployment fee to 7.5%, undermined the target acknowledged by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, of reaching full employment by 2027 – round 5%. For “further encourage the resumption of employment”, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, introduced an additional tightening of unemployment insurance coverage guidelines and a rise in checks on unemployed individuals. The tenant of Matignon needs specifically to tighten the affiliation interval, that’s to say the working time essential to qualify for an allowance.

Today, it’s essential to have labored six months out of the final twenty-four to realize rights. “What matters to me is less about changing the rules for someone who has worked all their life and who finds themselves with redundancy (…) only situations where we see that there is a system which is organized for the multiplication of small, short contracts between which we benefit from unemployment”he declared, recognizing that this “orients” the adjustments to return “towards the affiliation conditions”. To set these new guidelines, the federal government introduced on Monday that it’s going to set by decree within the coming weeks new compensation guidelines for job seekers, relevant « from 1^er subsequent July ».