Emmanuel Duteil, edited by Clément Perruche 9:22 a.m., September 17, 2021

Thursday, Elisabeth Borne announced the launch of a major plan against long-term unemployment.

The Minister of Labor has revealed that companies will receive subsidies from the state to provide training for the unemployed.

The goal is to reduce unemployment while solving the shortage of manpower in companies.

Another boost for the long-term unemployed - those who have been looking for a job for more than a year.

Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labor, unveiled a plan on Thursday that is supposed to reduce unemployment.

The State will henceforth finance companies so that they train job seekers.

Companies can thus both fight against unemployment and respond to their lack of labor.

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Method change

For the Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME), this change of method was necessary: ​​there is a shortage of around 100,000 employees in the catering industry, 70,000 in the building industry.

With its new plan, the government will therefore amplify a device that exists, but which is little used: operational preparation for employment. 

Concretely, this system consists of training job seekers in a trade directly in the company.

In this context, the training of the long-term unemployed is directly financed by the State.

This system works: in eight out of ten cases, the unemployed are offered, after their training, a permanent position.

In the same vein, the government asks Pôle Emploi to list by the end of October all the local good practices that could be duplicated.

The Ministry of Labor has also announced that it will maintain the means put in place during the health crisis.

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Unemployment: the French paradox

France is currently in a paradoxical situation, with a high unemployment rate - more than 8% - and historically high job offers which do not find takers. "Business leaders tell us that they have positions they can't find people for. It's also frustrating for a long-term job seeker to feel like they're standing by the wayside for a while. that the economy picks up, ”explains Elisabeth Borne in an interview with

Le Parisien

published on Thursday.

One of the problems often put forward to explain this paradox is the lack of training for job seekers. Companies fail to recruit for lack of properly trained workforce. So far, the calculation was losing for the State, which indeed invested a lot, with few results. This new action plan should help mitigate this phenomenon.