“Rather than the integration of young people, it is the access of beginners to stable employment that must be improved” | EUROtoday

Le “CDI for young people”, imagined by the president of the Movement of Companies of France [Medef]Patrick Martin, remembers the primary employment contract that Dominique de Villepin’s authorities tried in useless to impose in 2006. This everlasting youth contract is the truth is solely a brand new model of unsustainable and underpaid jobs which declare to enhance the beginnings of younger individuals’s skilled lives and in actuality lead to locking up, roughly completely, novices in precariousness.

At the chance of repeating already identified arguments, we should recall why this proposal, offered as assist for younger individuals to enter employment, is, at greatest, yet one more false resolution and, at worst, a decoy geared toward taking a brand new step within the deconstruction of workers’ rights. If the federal government doesn’t appear to need to take up this proposal, we must always undoubtedly see it as a trial balloon whose echo might be discovered within the 2027 presidential marketing campaign.

For fifty years, from the Barre authorities’s first youth employment pact in 1977 to the Castex authorities’s 1 youth 1 resolution plan in 2020, public insurance policies have piled up dozens of measures supposed to cut back youth unemployment. These insurance policies are primarily based on a analysis referring youth unemployment to 3 causes: their inexperience, which might make their recruitment dangerous, their wage price, which might be extreme, making an allowance for their productiveness, and coaching, which might poorly put together them for the expectations of recruiters and employers. These supposed causalities information the buildup of measures applied over the previous half-century.

From a strictly pragmatic perspective, if these improvements had been efficient, we’d have seen it a very long time in the past. However, quite the opposite, now we have noticed the permanence of extra unemployment amongst these below 25 because the finish of the Seventies: their unemployment charge is completely 2 to 2.5 occasions greater than the common unemployment charge. Thus, in 2024, 18.8% of staff below 25 had been unemployed, in comparison with 7.3% of all staff. A cautious remark of the figures additionally reveals a sensitivity of employment (and unemployment) of these below 25 to the cyclical vagaries of the economic system and employment.

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