The intensification of jobless checks causes radiation to jump

“Full employment is achievable.” At the end of last week, the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, was delighted with the favorable dynamics of unemployment, following the publication of the good figures for the month of November unveiled jointly by Dares and Pôle emploi. It must be said that, over a single month, the number of job seekers registered in category A with the public operator – listing the French without any activity – decreased by 2.1% compared to October. Or 65,800 fewer unemployed people in the Pôle emploi files. This is very good news when we know that the repercussions of the crisis in Ukraine, with a surge in inflation and a reduction in growth, should normally have been felt from 2022 on employment.

But a significant part of this drop is actually explained by a record level of radiation recorded by Pôle emploi. In a single and same month, the operator has indeed carried out 58,100 administrative cancellations. A level…