The creation of France Travail, successor to Pôle emploi, should represent a cost of “between 300 and 500 million euros” in 2024, before a load increase that could be largely financed by Unédic, according to Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt.
The report that prefigured the reform quantified a financing need of “2,200 to 2,700 million euros accumulated in three years,” recalled Olivier Dussopt, heard this Wednesday in the Senate in the Social Affairs Committee on the “full employment” bill. which will be discussed in July.
“It will necessarily be progressive because many provisions will only be applied generally in 2025”, he stressed, in particular the most expensive measure, the reinforcement of social and professional support for RSA beneficiaries who will then be automatically registered in France Travail.
This enhanced support (workshops, refresher courses, immersions, etc.) which has recently been tested in 18 departments, will only affect 40,000 RSA beneficiaries (out of 1.9 million) until the end of 2024. After “an evaluation period “, the experience will become widespread in 2025.
redeployment of staff
For the first year of France Travail, “we are going to need between 300 and 500 million euros,” he estimated. The first possibility is to increase state appropriations in the 2024 finance bill.
But Olivier Dussopt mainly mentioned the second option, an increase in the Unédic contribution, managed by the social partners, which finances 80% of Pôle emploi by paying it 11% of its income.
Without increasing this rate, this contribution from Unédic “will increase by 400 million euros next year” given “the dynamics of the wage bill and job creation.”
But “there are possibilities” to increase that rate given “the trajectory of quite massive surpluses” of Unédic, he estimated.
Unemployment insurance forecasts a positive balance of 5,400 million in 2024 and 8,700 million in 2025. According to Olivier Dussopt, it could even reach “between 10,000 and 18,000 million euros” in 2027 depending on the unemployment rate (7% or 5 %). ).
The minister assures that this financing of France Travail could be done “without altering the debt reduction trajectory” of Unédic, expected at 42,000 million at the end of 2023, contrary to the fears of the social partners.
He confirmed that there would also be redeployments in the Pôle emploi workforce, an increase according to him of 4,000 FTEs (full-time equivalent) since 2017, while the number of people looking for work has decreased.
Source: BFM TV
