2024-04-25 04:38:00
Margaux Fodéré // Credits: Magali Cohen / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP
Unemployment continues on its way. France Travail, formerly Pôle Emploi, will reveal, this Thursday, the figures for job seekers for the first quarter of 2024. Last year, unemployment started to rise once more and this is expected to continue. A fight still far from won by the government. Indeed, economists expect a further increase. Slight, but still an increase in the number of job seekers registered in category A at the start of the year.
For several weeks, the job market has been weighed down by the slowdown in the economy. For their part, companies are closing the recruitment floodgates, explains Eric Heyer, economist at the OFCE. “The constraints are no longer supply constraints, there is no longer a supply problem. But they are demand problems: the order books today are empty, whereas they were bursting at the seams during the health crisis And so when you have order books that are empty, business leaders are less interested in recruiting,” the expert tells Europe 1.
The France Travail reform will soon be effective
Over the first three months of the year, declarations of hires lasting more than one month, excluding temporary work, fell according to URSSAF figures. Enough to increase the number of unemployed French people. This might continue in the coming weeks with the entry into force of the France Travail reform. “From January 2025, all RSA applicants and all RSA beneficiaries will have to register with Pôle Emploi, with France Travail. So that might add up to a fairly gigantic sum, which will exceed a million, that’s certain, new people who will have to register”, underlines, Eric Heyer.
For job seekers, other constraints still limit full employment and wage mobility, such as wage shortages.
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