A statement that took place during the transfer of power to his successor at the Ministry of Labor, Olivier Dussopt.
«Full employment is within reach“, Estimated the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, during the transfer of power Monday with her successor at the Ministry of Labor, Olivier Dussopt.
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«I am proud today to leave this ministry when full employment is within reach, the unemployment rate is at its lowest for 15 years, the youth unemployment rate is at its lowest for 40 years and never so low of French people had had a job“, declared Elisabeth Borne by way of assessment, passing her hand on the steps of the Hôtel du Châtelet. “These results are first and foremost the result of necessary, demanding reforms“, she continued, referring in particular to that of unemployment insurance, which she carried, and which, she said, “better accompanies the French while setting a clear line: it is always the work that must pay».
«You are taking up your duties in a ministry with a changed name and even higher ambitions“, since it has become the Ministry of Labour, Full Employment and Integration, she underlined, addressing Olivier Dussopt. “The President of the Republic has set a course: full employment has never been so close, so accessible, so I am counting on you. (…) Full employment will be your compass“, she launched to him.
The social partners, “the beating heart of our social life”
She also recalled that 730,000 apprenticeship contracts had been signed in 2021, twice as many as in 2017.Your mission, dear Olivier, will be to bring this figure to one million signed contracts“, she urged her successor. During her speech, Elisabeth Borne also welcomed the social partners, unions and employers, who “are the beating heart of our social life. They are demanding, it’s normal and each project must be discussed, studied, built with them“, did she say.
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For his part, Olivier Dussopt, describing himself as “sons of workers» et «product of an all too rare social ascent that work must allow“, recalled that he would have the difficult task of carrying out the reform “necessary for pensions» and that he heard «dialogue and concert” with the social partners so that it “be carried out successfully» and that she is «just as responsible“. Regarding the social partners, Olivier Dussopt, who was Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts in the Castex government, announced that he was going to “receive them all this week to discuss with them their projects and their expectations“, and of “immediately establish a working relationship and, I hope, a relationship of trust».