2023-07-12 16:58:08
After years of rising, long-term unemployment fell in 2022 among people with disabilities.
The unemployment rate for people with disabilities has fallen by three points in one year to reach 12% in 2022, its lowest level for eight years. Encouraging figures which the Association for the management of the fund for the professional integration of people with disabilities (Agefiph) welcomed on Tuesday.
The improvement in the economic situation since 2021 has resulted in a “greater” drop in unemployment for people with disabilities than for the working population in general, observed Agefiph in a press release: for comparison, the rate overall unemployment fell from 8 to 7% between June 2021 and June 2022.
Other good news: “following years of increase, long-term unemployment and especially very long-term unemployment decreased in 2022” for people with disabilities. The number of people concerned registered with Pôle Emploi for more than two years has indeed fallen by 15% between 2021 and 2022.
People with disabilities remain penalized
If “the indicators are green”, “difficulties persist” however, because people with disabilities “remain penalized on the job market”, underlines the association.
Unemployed people with disabilities are older (they are 48 years old on average compared to 39 years old for the general population), less trained and less geographically mobile, so that only 35% find a job within twelve months of registering with Pôle Employment, once morest 60% for all the unemployed.
In companies with more than 20 employees, disabled people accounted for 3.5% of the workforce in 2021, i.e. a rate “still far from the 6% set by law”, deplores Agefiph.
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