Plan for the long-term unemployed: "The need for manpower is very important"

Antoine Terrel 1:23 p.m., September 17, 2021

The objective is clear: to find jobs for the long-term unemployed.

In an interview published Friday in

, the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne affirms that the government will launch "an unprecedented plan on the long-term unemployed" by financing the companies which will train during several months these job seekers. "Business leaders tell us that they have positions for which they cannot find employees", assures the minister, who also says she wants "to develop the situation in business by giving the means to employers who wish to that they train these job seekers as closely as possible to their needs ". But what do companies think of this announcement? Invited from Europe 1, Jean-Eude du Mesnil, secretary general of CPME, this training directly by companies is "something that works very well".

"The need for manpower is very important"

With this device, "we reverse the direction of the arrows," he describes.

"Rather than training someone and then thinking about finding him a job, we already identify an existing job offer and we offer someone who has a certain number of skills that may correspond to this job to train for be perfectly in line with this job offered at the exit. "

"It's something that works very well", insists Jean-Eude du Mesnil, "it works in more than 90% of cases".

Consequence: "It is something that the employers plebiscite because it meets their needs", continues the guest of Europe 1. "And the need for manpower today is very important."

Companies are struggling to recruit

This strengthening of the system will not solve everything, "but may help certain companies, predicts the secretary general of the CPME. Because today," we are in a truly paradoxical situation that companies have more and more difficulty in understanding " , with "several million people compensated by Pole Emploi, more than a million and a half long-term unemployed, and at the same time, in the service and construction sector, one in two companies seeking to recruit n 'not succeeding. "Even more serious, he explains," half of them give up these recruitments, these markets, growth. "

Thus, "everyone is the loser", deplores Jean-Eude du Mesnil, "so we must end this downward spiral at all costs".