“We won’t achieve full employment”: Bruno Le Maire warns of the limits of the French system. “I believe in work, I think that it structures a society, if we had full employment I wouldn't even have to worry about public finances: we would have solved the problem by 90%" “The unemployment rate for seniors in France is too high, the employment rate for those over 55 is one of the lowest of all developed countries, it’s a waste,” he argued.