The unemployment rate for people with disabilities has fallen three points in one year to reach 12% in 2022, its lowest level in eight years. Encouraging figures hosted on Tuesday by the Association for the management of the fund for the professional integration of people with disabilities (Agefiph).
The improvement in the economic situation since 2021 has translated into a “bigger” drop in unemployment for people with disabilities than for the workforce in general, Agefiph noted in a press release: for comparison, the overall unemployment rate fell from 8 to 7%. between June 2021 and June 2022.
Another good news: “after years of increase, long-term unemployment and especially very long-term unemployment has decreased in 2022” for people with disabilities. In fact, the number of applicants registered at Pôle Emploi for more than two years has been reduced by 15% between 2021 and 2022.
People with disabilities are still penalized
If “the indicators are green”, “difficulties persist”, however, because people with disabilities “continue to be penalized in the labor market”, stresses the association.
The unemployed with disabilities are older (they have an average age of 48 compared to 39 for the general population), less educated and less geographically mobile, such that only 35% find work in the twelve months following their registration with Pôle Employment , compared to 60% for all the unemployed.
In companies with more than 20 employees, people with disabilities represented 3.5% of the workforce in 2021, a rate “still far from the 6% established by law,” laments Agefiph.
Source: BFM TV
