France will need foreigners to fill 800,000 home-based jobs necessary for an aging population between now and 2030, explained on Tuesday the Federation of Private Employers of France (Fepem), which defends their regularization within the framework of the immigration bill.
“People removed from employment” will not be enough on their own “to cover the 800,000 vacancies that exist in France due to the aging of the population,” Marie-Béatrice Levaux, co-president of Fepem, observed during an online press conference.
In fact, the home employment sector is “among the top five of the most stressed professions in France”, and the fall in unemployment has further aggravated this labor shortage, underlined Pierre-Olivier Ruchenstain, CEO of this federation.
On the one hand, retirements are increasingly numerous among early childhood professionals, on the other hand, the number of older people who need help to stay at home is growing: “seven years from now, one in three people will have more than 65 years,” observes Pierre-Olivier Ruchenstain.
Already between 20 and 25% of employees are born abroad
Some regions “are more in tension than others”, such as the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, “where young retirees who will grow old are settling in”, notes Marie-Béatrice Levaux.
In these circumstances, “the foreign-born population becomes for us a catering major”, in a sector that already employs between 20 and 25% of workers born abroad since the 1970s, explained this manager.
According to Fepem, working from home affects 1.3 million employees, most often part-time, and 3.3 million individual entrepreneurs.
Source: BFM TV
