A year after tackling the debauchery of resources mobilized within the framework of the “1 young person, one solution” plan, the Court of Auditors draws up an equally mixed assessment of the actions taken by the government to promote the return to employment of the unemployed in long term at the end of the health crisis. On March 28, the high court published a “Flash audit”, devoted to the measures deployed in the direction of this category of assets, within the framework of the plan to reduce tensions on the labor market announced by the government in September 2021.
The idea was to take advantage of the economic recovery to reduce the number of unemployed registered for at least a year at Pôle Emploi, by directing them towards jobs in tension. This category had then experienced a strong explosion: the Court estimates around 1.3 million the number of long-term job seekers registered with Pôle emploi in October 2021.
Pôle emploi agents were notably tasked with remobilizing this public, emphasizing immediately operational measures, while financial carrots were granted in addition to two aids: the payment of a bonus of 1,000 euros to unemployed people undertaking pre-recruitment training and hiring assistance of 8,000 euros for employers recruiting a long-term job seeker on a professional training contract.
More than 400 million euros
To implement this plan, the State had provided a comfortable envelope of more than 400 million euros, as well as a temporary reinforcement of 700 additional agents for Pôle emploi, in addition to the some 57,000 people already employed by the public operator.
But this mobilization has had effects that are difficult to measure, believe the sages of rue Cambon. Between September 2021 and March 2022, a drop in long-term job seekers was indeed noted: 36% of them found a job during this period, compared to 31% for those attached to the 2019 cohort. If the Court of Auditors welcomes the ” strong mobilization of the Pôle Emploi agents, she notes that ” it is not possible to specify at this stage in what proportion the plan contributed to this increase ».
Straddling the end of the health crisis and the start of the war in Ukraine, the strong economic recovery observed during this period could largely explain the drop in the long-term unemployed, in particular those from the hotel and catering industry. Especially since no quantified target had been set by the government. ” Although it was endowed with significant resources, the plan did not include any measurable objective in terms of returning to work, nor reducing unemployment or recruitment tensions in the sectors particularly concerned. “, underlines the Court of Auditors.
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