The bill "full employment" will generate "mechanically" an increase in the number of job seekers registered with Pôle emploi with the reform of the RSA, said Wednesday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, without this meaning an increase in unemployment. At present, only 40% of RSA beneficiaries are registered with Pôle emploi. The reform provides that the approximately 1.9 million beneficiaries are all automatically registered with France Travail, the successor of Pôle emploi. "This will automatically increase the number of job seekers registered with Pôle emploi," said Dussopt, after the presentation of the bill to the Council of Ministers. But this will not affect the unemployment figures according to the International Labour Office (ILO) provided by INSEE, those "on which the State has communicated for at least 20 years" and "which have little to do in reality with the number of job seekers registered with Pôle emploi," he added.
The two organizations do not measure unemployment in the same way: Pôle emploi counts jobseekers registered on its lists divided into several categories (A, B, C, D, E), while the INSEE figure, which allows international comparisons, is the result of a survey carried out each quarter among a sample of dwellings. As part of the reform, "we are working with Pôle emploi - which will become France Travail - on this issue of the categories of job seekers registered with Pôle emploi", because the registration of 100% of recipients (of the RSA) will require "that some of them are registered in categories exempt from job search".
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For some, this research is in fact "almost impossible, or even totally impossible" for reasons including "health or extremely difficult integration pathways," he said. "So, we are working on this, it is not successful because it is an internal reflection to the operator that is Pôle emploi and that will be France Work," he said.