For job seekers, the crisis has not been painless.
According to the latest barometer published on Wednesday evening by the association Solidarités nouvelles face au unemployment (SNC), the health of the unemployed deteriorated more during the Covid than that of people in employment.
According to the study 19% of job seekers say that their state of health has deteriorated since the start of the health crisis, against 13% of people in employment.
Among them, 46% say they have encountered problems such as depression and / or psychological consequences during the year 2020.
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The survey also reveals that 62% of working French people, or nearly two-thirds, have already experienced unemployment during their career.
For 38% of them, it goes back less than 3 years, for 30% between 3 and 10 years and for 32% more than ten years.
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When you are unemployed, you need support: these are very hard times.
When you respond to an ad and nothing happens, despair sets in.
Unemployment mentally destroys a person.
We feel devalued, rejected and without interest in the eyes of society,
”testifies Régine who has experienced several periods of unemployment but who has now been working again since February 2020.
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In addition, the study confirms that young people are the first affected by the crisis.
New entrants to the labor market aged 18 to 24 represent nearly a third of job seekers, or 32% against 29% in 2019 and 24% in 2018. This increase is largely due to the drop in the number of fixed-term contracts and temporary work contracts at the very start of the crisis, which constitute the traditional route of entry into the labor market for the youngest.
On the other hand, on the positive side, the activity rate of people aged 55 and over rose from 84% in 2019 to 90% in 2020.
Favorable to the taxation of fixed-term contracts
Asked about the very thorny reform of unemployment insurance, the first measures of which will come into force on July 1, respondents say they are in favor of the introduction of a bonus-malus for employers in order to encourage them to use less often short contracts (67% overall, 60% among those looking for work, 66% among those on fixed-term or temporary contracts).
Likewise, 57% of those questioned are in favor of declining unemployment benefit for people under the age of 57 who have earned more than 4,500 euros gross per month.
This rate is 53% among people on fixed-term contracts, temporary workers or looking for work.
On the other hand, 55% of the people questioned are opposed to a modification of the minimum duration of affiliation.
The rate rises to 63% among those looking for work.
