A great social ministry for Olivier Dussopt

by time news

Successor to Elisabeth Borne rue de Grenelle, Olivier Dussopt, appointed Minister of Labour, Full Employment and Integration, is officially entrusted with two of the key objectives of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term: achieving full employment in France and implement the pension reform. A shame for the one who, in 2010, judged “doubly unfair” the “willingness to raise the retirement age” carried by Éric Woerth, who is now part of the same majority as him.

Civil Service Reform Listening to Unions

But, unlike Nicolas Sarkozy’s former budget minister, Olivier Dussopt comes from the left: joining the PS for 20 years, he co-signed in 2010 the motion brought to the Reims congress by Benoît Hamon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon then was Martine Aubry’s spokesperson during the 2012 presidential campaign.

This social profile should serve him to reconnect with the unions after a first five-year term where they felt that the social dialogue had been abused. The one who joined macronism late in life – joining the government of Édouard Philippe in November 2017, three days after voting against the budget – thus has to his credit his reform of the public service of 2019, where he had been able to listen to the CFDT and Unsa.

Parallel to his government activity, Olivier Dussopt also organized with Jean-Yves Le Drian the left wing of the majority, founding the party Territories of progress, which he chairs today and from which the new Prime Minister comes.

Full employment objective

His new title also underlines another priority of Emmanuel Macron: to achieve full employment. A goal which, if it seemed unattainable only five years ago, when the unemployment rate was still flirting with 10%, now seems possible when the unemployment rate for the first quarter of 2022 stands at 7.3 % – even if the Ukrainian crisis raises some concerns.

“Our purchasing power policy is an employment policy”, explained before the elections in the presidential entourage, where it was considered possible to bring back to employment those who are still excluded from the labor market thanks to dynamic job creation.

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