The low participation rate of older workers back into the crosshairs of the government. While the employment rate of 60-64 years is 17% – against 30% on average in Europe – the postponement of the next age of retirement increases the urgency to improve their employability. Lest the number of older unemployed increased significantly. In an interview in Paris, the Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez details the tracks being considered by the government to address them.
First measure: a transposition to senior citizens, at the request of the President of the Republic, the device "zero charge" established during the crisis to boost recruitment in small businesses. A measure that was then allowed to generate, according to the government, one million additional jobs.Since, according to the observation made by Laurent Wauquiez, "companies do not hire older workers because they are too expensive," Secretary of State for Employment suggests "to enable companies who hire older unemployed to be exempt from charges. " A measure that could prove costly.
Second measure mentioned: encouraging the development of tutoring. A practice already contained in most "action plans" developed by companies with over 50 employees in early 2010, the government's request. "This creates the link between generations," says Laurent Wauquiez, a senior form a young, and so we created employment for both. Today, the device for 200,000 people.But the government wants to go further, developing the management of a portion of the salary of the guardian in order to lower the cost of funds for vocational training.
The government's proposals in the context of pension reform should not be known until mid-June But the number of unemployed over 55 years did not wait until that date to increase: in May, it still rose 0.8%.
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