The fall in the unemployment rate for people with disabilities, which began in 2020, will continue in 2021 and in the first quarter of 2022, even if it remains well above that of the general population.
The unemployment rate for people with disabilities stood at 14% at the end of the first quarter of 2022 (compared to 8% for the population as a whole), whereas it stood at 19% before the Covid-19 crisis. , a rate twice as high as the general population, revealed Agefiph (organization in charge of the professional integration of people with disabilities) on May 12, 2022 during a press conference. Thus, the rate of disabled job seekers is at its lowest level for five years.
Exceptional measures
For Didier Eyssartier, CEO of Agefiph, the pandemic could “cause fears, but the exceptional measures, widely requested, have allowed a strong development“Efforts made to hire and keep people with disabilities in employment.very high“909 days, compared to 695 for the population as a whole. But for Christophe Roth, president of Agefiph, this gap”tightens“, with a clear reduction in long-term unemployment: the number of jobseekers whose application has been in place for more than one year fell by 10% between the first quarters of 2021 and 2022.
An explosion of alternation
Didier Eyssartier also notes “an explosion” admissions of people with disabilities on work-study programs, with more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts signed in 2021 (+12% over one year). Vocational training is “a real and continuous priority“, welcomed Christophe Roth. The employment rate in 2021 of workers with disabilities is not yet known. They represented 3.6% of all workers in 2020, still far from the legal threshold set at 6 The Agefiph aims, by 2024, to achieve an employment rate of more than 4%, which would represent an increase of 150,000 to 200,000 disabled workers, in particular by targeting sectors in tension, such as digital. , hotels and restaurants or construction.
For Christophe Roth, national operations such as “DuoDay” -system created in 2018 allowing a disabled person to share a day with a professional to discover his work- allow “break down prejudices and negative biases“at their job.
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