After having occupied for “more than twenty years” various positions in human resources, Dominique (the people mentioned by their first name did not wish to give their name) now finds herself ” on the other side “that of job seekers, following economic dismissal in November 2023. Once the “psychological shock” linked to the loss of his position and after an inconclusive experience of a few weeks at the start of the year, this 55-year-old former recruitment manager is forced to maintain a daily life that resembles “real working days”.
From dawn, Dominique sifts through job offers, applies for some of them, contacts recruiters, goes to interviews, all while keeping up to date with current issues in his sector.“as currently on artificial intelligence”. At the end of his days, this father writes down on his computer all the actions undertaken ” For [se] to give the impression [qu’il n’a] not passed [sa] day of doing nothing”before preparing a “to-do list” tasks to complete the next day: “It’s a slightly excessive way of operating, but I absolutely want to find a job. »
So when the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announces a new reform of unemployment insurance and the increase in controls for “further encourage people to return to work” arguing that “work must always pay better than inactivity”, Dominique wonders if the executive “consider carefully the psychological side of being unemployed”. “ We are not here to do nothing and wait for it to passhe justifies himself. Work helps structure each human being; when you don’t have a job, you feel on the margins of society. »
The Prime Minister’s desire to once again tighten the rules of unemployment insurance by proposing to reduce the duration of compensation, to reduce the amount or to increase the working time necessary to benefit from compensation was thus perceived by many people looking for work as another hard blow received in a path already strewn with pitfalls.
Unemployed and receiving active solidarity income (RSA), Anne-Laure deplores, ” a speech which makes the most precarious feel guilty”. “If there really was real support, fine. But there isn’t even that.” rejects this 60-year-old former editorial secretary, who criticizes France Travail in particular for a lack of regular monitoring. This Ile-de-France resident was offered a position as head of accounting mission by her advisor, ” SO [qu’elle n’a] no experience in accounting »before being directed towards training to become a security agent for the Olympic Games. “I find myself being directed towards something that doesn’t suit me, but hey it will allow me to work…”she explains, with a certain fatalism.
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