Question 10521 — unemployment

Summary

Ms. Lisette Pollet draws the attention of the Minister of Labor and Solidarity to the persistent difficulties encountered by employees who undertake professional retraining and to the insufficiency of the support offered by France Travail in these pathways, which are nevertheless encouraged by the public authorities. While professional retraining constitutes one of the essential levers for adapting the labor market in the face of economic changes, numerous testimonies point to a mismatch between stated ambitions and the reality on the ground. The France Stratégie report of June 2023 recalls that while around 1.4 million professional mobility can be assimilated to retraining each year, only 60,000 professional transition courses are actually financed. This low proportion calls into question the capacity of the system to support truly voluntary and anticipated transitions. The reform resulting from the law for full employment of December 18, 2023 and its implementing decrees of December 30, 2024 aimed to strengthen the coordination of actors in the public employment service and to guarantee individualized monitoring of applicants. However, several findings, relayed by parliamentary reports and the specialized press, reveal a discrepancy between the planned means and the observed needs. Likewise, information report no. 771 of the Senate (2022-2023) mentions a reduction in France Travail's employment ceiling to 48,647 FTEs for 2025, a drop of 500 positions despite a significant expansion of its missions. Finally, several journalistic surveys, including that published by Mediacités in September 2024, warn of a growing outsourcing of support for certain audiences, at the risk of a deterioration in the service provided and a loss of the human connection at the heart of the public employment system. In this context, many workers undergoing retraining, including young people with stable professional experience, find themselves excluded from any financial or logistical assistance and struggle to access real personalized support. This situation highlights a worrying paradox: an employee who chooses to voluntarily leave a job to build a coherent and lasting professional project often sees less support than someone who experiences a job break. Such a contradiction raises the question of the overall coherence of employment policies and leads the MP to question the capacity of the current regulatory framework to recognize the social and economic value of the chosen reconversions, on the adequacy criteria for access to public aid and the sustainability of France Travail workforce. The MP also questions the means implemented to ensure that recent reforms do not result, in practice, in dehumanized support or in the multiplication of unfunded pathways. She wants to get his attention and asks him what his position is on the need for a thorough assessment conditions of access to support from France Travail for people undergoing retraining, as well as the opportunity to adjust existing systems so that they effectively support those who undertake, by reasoned choice, to give meaning to their professional career.

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