Grandstand. Is a tool designed to deal with mass unemployment relevant to support the return to full employment? Of course not. This is undoubtedly what motivated the President of the Republic and candidate to propose the transformation of Pôle emploi into France Travail. The challenge is to better coordinate the efforts of the various employment players and bring them together under a common banner, which would be more readable, more effective and would make it possible to support all audiences in their training, mobility, entering or returning to work.
The support system for employment is now fragmented. This is the consequence of a laudable intention on the part of the national and local public authorities: to contain unemployment and increase the possible efforts in this direction. The result is a functioning in silos in the approach of the different groups: unemployed, young people, beneficiaries of the active solidarity income (RSA) and workers with disabilities.
Heterogeneous initiatives
Thus, today, Pôle emploi is responsible for supporting the return to work, compensation and putting employers and the unemployed in contact with one thousand agencies. Its approach is quite monolithic and has hitherto responded to volume issues.
The local missions are, for their part, associative structures chaired by local elected officials, dedicated to young people aged 16 to 25, whom they support in a so-called “global” approach and with a wide variety of support methods, integrating at the same time employment, training, orientation, mobility, housing, health, access to culture and leisure. They are 450 on the national territory.
Local authorities have also put in place many tools to help access to employment, often complementary, sometimes redundant, which they manage directly or entrust to third parties. Their initiatives are very heterogeneous in nature and impact.
Finally, the hundred or so Cap Emploi organizations are responsible for supporting and keeping people with disabilities in employment.
A new approach
In this context, the challenge for France Travail will be to better coordinate these actors, to facilitate the sharing of data on the follow-up of people deprived of employment and to identify the support path that works specifically for each of them.
The context has changed a lot in five years and justifies a new, more targeted and personalized approach, the average cost of which will undoubtedly be higher.
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