Tribune. No, long-term unemployment is not inevitable, it is not based on a lack of will on the part of people excluded from employment, as we unfortunately hear so often! Our 2.5 million fellow citizens who are long-term unemployed are not responsible for this situation.
No, we haven’t tried everything! Long-term unemployment is based on the mismatch between job vacancies and people’s skills, on a lack of “employability” of companies, on the devaluation of professions and on the State’s underinvestment in employment. net job creation.
For us, actors of the social and solidarity economy, committed local elected officials, field actors established in the territories, the fight against long-term unemployment will go through the creation of jobs of social and territorial utility carried and designed at most. close to the regions to guarantee employment for all, enhancing and restoring social and economic citizenship to people while supporting their rise in skills towards future sectors.
The “right to employment” in the obligations of the State
Contrary to popular belief and agitated by politicians, according to Pôle Emploi, nine out of ten job vacancies are filled and there is today one vacant post for thirteen unemployed. By expanding to job seekers in the broader sense, we arrive at one position for every twenty-two job seekers. These figures very much call into question the temptation to place the responsibility for mass unemployment on the unemployed themselves, as Emmanuel Macron did in his speech of November 9, announcing a strengthening of the control of people seeking employment. .
In addition, public employment policies justify a large share of unemployment by the lack of qualifications of job seekers. However, companies and their method of recruitment also have their share of responsibility. All companies recruit using prerequisites based on the belief that only a diploma validates the skills of an employee.
Finally, despite the reluctance of the public authorities to recognize it, two obligations weigh on the State: that of guaranteeing to each individual the “right to employment”, a constitutional right enshrined in the preamble to the Constitution of 1946, and that of reduce budgetary expenditure generated by the costs of unemployment. Because, let us remember, job deprivation has a cost: more than 30 billion euros per year!
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