Unemployment: 2014 bad year, 8100 new applicants … – TF1

Unemployment: 2014 bad year, 8100 new applicants … – TF1

With 3,496,000 unemployed without metropolis activity in December and 189,100 additional job seekers in 2014, President Hollande remains in check on the unemployment more than mid term, the effects of delaying responsibility Covenant to materialize. Some 8,100 additional people without activity, are registered at employment center in December (+ 0.2%). Over the year, the increase in the number of unemployed in this category (A) was 5.7%, as in 2013. Including the unemployed with reduced activity, 5.21 million people were enrolled in the employment center metropolis, with 5.52 million overseas territories.

“We have always considered that 2014 was a difficult year,” responded the Prime Minister Manuel Valls, noting that with “very low growth”, it was “not expect miracles. ” But for him, “2015 must be the year of remobilization and reclaiming”. In a statement, the Ministry of Labour stressed that the increase was in December “two times lower than the monthly average of the last twelve months.”

The more than 50 years most affected

Eric Heyer, an economist OFCE, the December figures are “symptomatic” of an “explosion” of job seekers with limited activity and therefore “precarious workers”. “Today, two out of three new hires CDD less than a month, which means contracts for a week, two weeks.” These people “come out of the statistics of the International Labour Office or the Class A because they will work a few hours but are still unemployed at the end of the month”. For the expert, “that’s 1.7 million people traveling between unemployment and employment.”
Among the unemployed, the ranks of more than 50 years, the most affected, have jumped 10.4% year on year revealing – a reflection, according to Mr. Heyer, “the absence of targeted policy on them, contrary to what is done to the young.” Indeed, the number of young job seekers under 25, up only 1.7% year on year, declined sligh tly in December (-0.2%). The employment policy in 2014 was focused on “most at risk of exclusion from the labor market”, said the ministry, citing “nearly 97,000 jobs of the future for young people often unskilled” “nearly 310,000 assisted contracts and 48,000 non-market dealers for long-term unemployed or excluded from employment.”

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