Office notebook. See more clearly about employment. This could be the watchword communicated at the start of 2024 to all administrations and institutions responsible for observing or analyzing public policies. Everyone is striving to bring more transparency to the job market, facing the challenges of ongoing technological and environmental transitions.
This is’“ensure the availability of skills” for Réseau Action Climat, which has just, on March 13, published a study carried out in partnership with the Ecological Transition Agency (Ademe) and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, on the economic context in which these transitions take place. She reminds us of the need to anticipate, to set a course “sufficiently explicit” to move forward, and lists the existing mechanisms to do so.
Everyone is supposed to be mobilized for this “construction site of the century” : companies, employees, territories. To do what ? It’s already less clear. The report lists the initiatives taken by the territories concerning employment changes linked to the ecological transition and underlines the importance of local governance of employment in transition.
Retraining is complex to implement, as evidenced by the confidential success of collective transitions, despite the intelligence of the system which allows the smooth transition of employees from a profession where jobs are disappearing to another where jobs are multiplying.
Fog of uncertainties
If the issues are roughly identified, they differ depending on the territory, given the weight of local sectors. In Franche-Comté, cited as an example, “the region has deployed a roadmap to support changes in the sector [automobile]. The automotive industry employs more than 20,000 people in the region, with the workforce decreasing by 30% from 2007 to 2018.. Urssaf Franche-Comté, which is also trying to shed light on the evolution of the labor market, has just announced that it has launched, at the end of 2023, an experimental project of “interactive job mapping” For “better understand the changes”.
Estimates of the number of jobs disrupted by the ecological transition vary from 200,000 to more than 1 million creations and 800,000 destructions, indicates Réseau Action Climat. But this encryption “not worth forecasting”, specifies the report. A comment which, in itself, gives an idea of the thickness of the fog of uncertainties which go well beyond the quantitative aspect of employment.
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