2023-07-06 05:29:02
Employment center located at the intersection of avenue Laenecet and rue Henri-Dunant in Hem (Nord). The reception hall was ransacked and the premises of Pôle emploi were set on fire. In Hem, July 3, 2023. AIMÉE THIRION FOR “THE WORLD”
Eleven Pôle Emploi agencies degraded, two others burnt down. Like all institutions, the public employment service was not spared by the riots that affected France after the death of young Nahel M., killed by a policeman in Nanterre, Tuesday, June 27. A symbol for territories whose inhabitants are often very far from the job market. The unemployment rate is more than twice the national average, at 18% of the active population against 7.1%.
One more sign of the relegation of the 1,514 priority districts of the city (QPV) in the country, and of the unfavorable situation of the suburbs compared to the rest of the territory. And this is an element that is of considerable importance in view of the objective repeated like a mantra by the government for more than a year: to achieve full employment – around 5% unemployment – by 2027. Worse, while young people under 25 are overrepresented in QPV (39.1% compared to 29.9% in mainland France), the unemployment rate for people under 30 rose there, in 2020, to 30, 4%, according to a report by the National Observatory of Urban Policies.
The situation is improving there, however, and the current good health of the labor market is also benefiting working-class neighbourhoods. Unemployment has fallen rapidly and steadily – it was 26.4% in 2015 – but the gap with the rest of the territory remains wide. A downward momentum that comes from “the feat”according to the President of the Observatory of Inequalities, Louis Maurin, as these territories constantly welcome the people most in difficulty while “those who find a stable job leave them”.
The latter, however, tempers: “It would be a mistake to believe that improving employment will mechanically solve all the problems. » An analysis shared by the president of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, Pascal Brice. “The unemployment rate will continue to fall, he points out. But we will have to continue to work on the issue of poverty and precariousness. » Among the residents of QPV who have a job, one in five has signed a precarious contract (CDD, apprenticeship, temporary work, internships), compared to one in seven in the agglomerations to which these neighborhoods belong. And according to the work of the National Observatory of Urban Policies, they are 70.8% workers or employees, against an average of 44.9% in France (excluding Mayotte).
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Entrepreneurship and uberized jobs have sometimes been put forward as a possible remedy for unemployment, a phenomenon “relativize” according to Louis Maurin. “Most young people in the QPV are looking for salaried employment for stability, which is the best way to get by, to buy a lodge, etc. », he indicates.
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