The number of job seekers registered in category A (without activity) increased very slightly in November compared to the previous month (+0.15%), i.e. 4,600 more registered to 3.035 million, according to figures from the Ministry of Labor published Thursday.
Including reduced activity (categories B and C), the number of job seekers in France (excluding Mayotte) also increases by 0.49% (+26,300) and stands at 5.404 million, according to the employment service. statistics from the Ministry of Labor (Dares). In the second quarter, the number of category A unemployed fell slightly, but it increased by 0.6% in the third quarter in France as a whole (excluding Mayotte), to 3.028 million, according to ministry figures.
The improvement of recent years undermined
Including reduced activity (categories B and C of Pôle emploi), the latest quarterly results published at the end of November showed a slight increase of 0.2% in the number of job seekers in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter. previous, at 5.352 million. Dares does not comment on monthly data, which is too volatile, favoring quarterly developments.
For his second term, the Head of State has set the government’s objective of achieving full employment by 2027 (i.e. an unemployment rate of 5% compared to around 7% currently). But the improvement observed for several years seems to be undermined in a context now marked by a slight rise in the unemployment rate at the end of the year, which pushes certain government executives to plead for new reforms, even unpopular ones.
Thus, the social partners will meet at the start of the school year for a new round of negotiations and will, among other things, have to propose new rules for compensation for unemployed seniors (55 years and over) who will have to take into account the shift in the retirement age. retirement (62 to 64 years).
The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said in mid-November that he was in favor of lowering the duration of compensation for unemployed people over 55 (around 400,000 seniors receiving compensation) to align it with that of other applicants for employment, which would reduce it from 27 to 18 months. However, the duration of compensation for all unemployed people has already been reduced by 25% on February 1.