The unemployed are more closely monitored.
During his speech this Tuesday evening, Emmanuel Macron announced that the payment of unemployment benefits would now be suspended for job seekers who are not considered to be actively seeking.
"
Job seekers who do not demonstrate an active search will have their allowance suspended,
" said the Head of State.
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The Head of State was indeed annoyed to note that too many job vacancies remained unfilled.
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Jean Castex has repeated in recent weeks the figure of 300,000 jobs to be filled at present, saying he is based on data from the Banque de France.
And this, while 3.3 million people were unemployed (category A of Pôle Emploi) in the third quarter in mainland France.
There is nothing revolutionary about this announcement.
Since 2008, the law has already made it possible to suspend the allowance received by an unemployed person if he refuses two “
reasonable
” offers.
At the end of December 2018, a decree had also been published in the Official Journal toughening the penalties incurred by the unemployed.
In the event of insufficient job searches, the text provided for unemployment benefit to be "
removed
" from the first failure.