New name, new logo, new general director and new missions. The change is total for Pôle emploi, officially become France Travail, on 1er January. A transformation of the public employment service supposed to allow the government to achieve full employment – around 5% unemployment, compared to 7.4% today – the objective of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term.
France Travail’s ambition is to better coordinate all employment stakeholders: local missions, which support young people, Cap Emploi, which is aimed at people with disabilities, as well as state services and local authorities. . The new operator must therefore act as a single entry point for all audiences, and all job seekers will now be registered – by 2025 at the latest – with France Travail. Including the 2 million beneficiaries of active solidarity income (RSA). As was ratified by the law on full employment adopted in November, the latter will have to pay “at least fifteen hours” weekly activity to receive their allowance.
New sanction regime
All job seekers will sign an “engagement contract” in which the individualized monitoring of the person will be defined. In the event of non-compliance with the contract, the person will risk being removed from France Travail. For RSA beneficiaries, a new sanctions regime has been put in place, in order to temporarily suspend payment of the allowance. The amount may be paid retroactively if the situation is regularized, within a limit of three months. A first step before a possible total or partial elimination of the service. It is in this context that the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, announced, on December 15, 2023, In The echoesthe strengthening of “controls” job search. “I would like us to at least double the number of checks”he explained, while there are 500,000 today.
The transformation of the public operator, now headed by Thibaut Guilluy, is expected to cost between 2.3 billion and 2.7 billion euros over the period 2024-2026.