This month of May, there were 25,300 category A unemployed less than the previous one (-0.8%), according to figures from the Ministry of Labor published on Monday. Including reduced activity (categories B and C), the number of jobseekers in France (excluding Mayotte) fell by 23,900 (-0.4%) to 5.432 million, according to the Dares.
Good news as the number of category A unemployed was for the first time in a year rising again in April (+0.3%). However, the Ministry’s Statistics Department (Dares) does not comment on the monthly data, which is too volatile, favoring quarterly changes.
Sharp drop of 5% in the first quarter
The latest quarterly results published at the end of April had shown a sharp drop of 5% in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, or 170,000 fewer registered in category A, to 3.193 million on average over the three months. For ABC, the decline was 2.7% to 5.533 million.
In May, Pôle emploi still listed 2.4 million long-term job seekers (DELD, unemployed for more than a year) in metropolitan France. The new Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt stressed that this number had decreased by “240,000 since October” with the implementation in the fall of a 1.4 billion euro plan aimed at remobilizing and training job seekers. long-term employment in shortage occupations (hotels and restaurants, transport, personal assistance, construction, etc.)