In 2019, 400,000 controls were conducted by Pôle emploi. The executive wants to increase these checks by 25% in the next six months.
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The executive is again accused of attacking the unemployed. While it has just announced an increase in controls on jobseekers, several union officials are indignant, believing that such a measure is “demagogic” and contains electoralists. These criticisms are added to those launched for months against the reform of unemployment insurance, which has tightened the rules for accessing the device while making the compensation of precarious workers less favorable.
The anger of employee organizations is linked to the last speech of Emmanuel Macron. Tuesday, November 9, the President of the Republic spoke of “entrepreneurs” who struggle to recruit labor, for lack of candidates. “At the moment when three million of our compatriots are still unemployed, this situation hit the common sense,” he deplored. To “exceed”, the head of state listed several solutions, already implemented – for example, massive investments in vocational training – or which will come soon. Thus, “jobseekers who will not demonstrate active research will see their suspended allowances,” he said.
15 billion for training
Its purpose could have suggested that it was a novelty. It is not so. In Pôle emploi, there are some 600 agents who ensure that the unemployed take initiatives to win a position – they are required to do so when they register for the public operator. In 2019, approximately 400,000 checks were conducted; 15% of them led to more or less severe penalties, the allowance that can be removed for one to four months or permanently if there is a fraud.
The number of these verifications will be increased by 25% for the next six months. This is what the Minister of Labor have indicated, Elisabeth Borne, Wednesday morning on RTL. The goal is to see if the targeted individuals “responds [ENT] to offers, goes to interviews, participate [NT] at recruitment sessions or sui [wind] the proposed training”. “It’s very normal,” she added, recalling that at the beginning of the five-year power has launched a plan, financed € 15 billion, to develop the skills of applicants. job.
The government’s decision “is based on the presupposition that the unemployed do not want to work and to force them with the sanctions and decreases of allocation”, entrusts Denis Gravouil, in charge of the Unemployment Insurance file. The CGT: “We are of course opposed to it.” “We stigmatize job seekers, is insured Michel Beaugas, Confederal Secretary with Force Ouvrière. It is the same speech as the one to claim that it is enough to cross The street to find a job. The President of the Republic seeks to expand his electoral spectrum. “Confederal Secretary to CFTC, Eric Courpotin denounces a form of” populism “:” We entered the countryside. “For his part, Marylise Léon , the number two of the CFDT, regrets that the executive did not address the “question of corporate responsibility” in this debate which encompasses the theme of non-filled job offers: for it, working conditions and Remuneration is one of the Pri notcipal data of the problem.
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