The “full employment” bill will “mechanically” lead to an increase in the number of job seekers registered with Pôle emploi with the reform of the RSA, said Wednesday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, without this necessarily implying a rise in unemployment.
At present, only 40% of RSA beneficiaries are registered for employment. The reform provides that the approximately 1.9 million beneficiaries are all automatically registered with France Travail, the successor to Ple emploi.
This will automatically increase the number of job seekers registered with Ple emploi, indicated Mr. Dussopt, following the presentation of the bill to the Council of Ministers. But that won’t have no impact on unemployment figures within the meaning of the International Labor Office (ILO) provided by INSEE, those on which the State has been communicating for at least 20 years and which in reality have little to do with the number of jobseekers registered with Ple job, he added.
Two different calculation methods
The two organizations do not measure unemployment in the same way: Ple emploi counts the job seekers registered on its lists divided into several categories (A, B, C, D, E), whereas the INSEE figure, which allows international comparisons, is the result of a survey carried out quarterly on a sample of dwellings.
As part of the reform, we are working with Ple emploi – which will become France Travail – on this question of the categories of job seekers registered with Ple emploi, because the registration of 100% of the recipients (of the RSA) will require that certain between them are registered in categories exempted from seeking employment.
For some, this research is in fact almost impossible, even totally impossible, for reasons including health or extremely difficult integration paths, he underlined.
So, we are working on this, it is not successful because it is an internal reflection on the operator that is Ple emploi and what will be France Travail, he specified