The improvement in the workplace also benefits people with disabilities, since the number of long-term unemployed with disabilities has fallen by 15% in 2022, according to data released this Thursday by the “Cap emploi” network, structures specialized in serve these audiences.
Last year, just under 199,000 people with disabilities had been looking for work for more than a year, 15% less than in 2021, Marlène Cappelle, delegate of Cheops, the Cap Emploi national network, said at a press conference. In the general population, this figure has decreased by 21%.
The improvement was also reflected in an 11% increase in the number of “reincorporations to work”, that is, people with disabilities who come out of unemployment.
Better coordination between Pôle Emploi and Cap Emploi
The “quite favorable economic situation in 2022” favored recruitment, but this good result is also explained by “better coordination in the field of professionals from Pôle Emploi and Cap Emploi”, underlined Marlène Cappelle.
Since October 2021, the two structures have come together to offer unemployed people with disabilities a “single place of support”, offered by more than 1,100 Cap emploi advisers and around 2,000 Pôle emploi advisers trained more specifically in disability.
In three years, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities has dropped from 18% to less than 14%, according to the Association for the management of the fund for the professional integration of people with disabilities (Agefiph).
However, it remains almost double that observed in the general population (7.2% in the 4th quarter of 2022).
Source: BFM TV
