Unemployment: France Travail will further intensify its checks on job seekers

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A new attack on job seekers. The former Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, had already warned in the columns of Echosin mid-December: “I would like us to at least double the number of job search checks.” This Friday, March 1, during a trip to the Vosges, Gabriel Attal even went further. “The course has not changed: it is full employment and we will hold it”, said the Prime Minister. To achieve this, the head of government is counting, among other things, “continue to speed up on our controls. France Travail carried out 500,000 per year last year. This year we will increase to more than 600,000”he said.

But the intensification of controls carried out by France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) to verify that job seekers are indeed actively looking will not stop there. “I set a goal: that we multiply by three inspections each year between now and the end of the five-year term. In 2027 therefore, France Travail will achieve 1.5 million checks per year. I hope that the social partners of France Travail will seize this objective and make it a reality”announced Gabriel Attal.

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7 checks on unemployed people out of 10 will have to target professions in shortage from 2024

This strengthening of controls will not target all job seekers in the same way. Indeed, the Prime Minister wants the checks carried out by France Travail agents to be “more targeted” and that they focus on the professions in tensionthese professions which struggle to recruit and for which the number of available job offers is significantly higher than that of candidates.

According to a recent study of Dares, the statistics service of the Ministry of Labor, among the professions most in tension are those of mechanics and metalworking technician, electrical and electronics designer, surveyor, roofer, nurse, carpenter or pipefitter. “Today, one in two inspections concerns professions in tension. I wish we would move on to seven out of ten from this year”warned Gabriel Attal, who has been increasing in recent days announcements aimed at reducing the rights of job seekers.