New record for job seekers in May – BBC

The number of jobseekers in France has again increased in May, according to figures released by the Ministry of Labour. The number of job seekers Class A (no activity) rose last month by 0.5% in France or 16,200 people, bringing the total to 3,552,000. Adding categories B and C (persons who have exercised reduced activity), the number of registered job center is to up 1.3%, or 69,600 people, for a total of 5.41 million people and 5.72 million including the departments of overseas territories. Over a year, in late May, the metropolis has 5% of job seekers in addition to Class A and 7.9% including categories B and C.

This is the fourth consecutive month of increase after the slight decline in January, which was not found on.

The Minister of Labour, François Rebsamen, however judge in a statement that its scope does not reflect the real situation due to incident on the collection of updated situations of job seekers. “Statistic (…) was affected this month by an unusual event: the strong unexplained drop in the number of job seekers followed updated after multiple reminders, an increase of exceptional magnitude,” says -he said in a statement. “This resulted in a drop in employment center outputs for discount defects makes the data (…) is not comparable to the previous and therefore not interpretable months,” he added, saying that the actual range category A would be between 7,000 and 10,000 more unemployed.

The increase in May affected equivalently the age of 25 in category A (+ 0.9%) and 50+ ( + 0.9%), while it was 0.2% among 25-49 years.

The number of registered unemployed for over a year job center, considered long-term unemployed, continued to rise, by 1.4% over one month and 1.9% year on year.

Their share in the total number of registered job seekers was stable over the month to 43.7% (+1.2 points over one year).

The average length of enrollment is up to 549 days (one day). The inputs to job center have they, down 5.2% over one month in May for categories A, B and C in France, but the outputs given by the minister, have fallen back 9.5%.