No. 1/1999
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No. 1/1999 |
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A year after it was launched under the name of "Nouveaux services, nouveaux emplois" (New services, new jobs), the programme is being consolidated under the official title of "Nouveaux services, emplois jeunes" (New services, youth jobs). The announcement has been made by member of parliament Jean-Claude Boulard, the author of a report* providing information on the application of the law on the development of youth employment, enacted on 16 October 1997. The report summarises observations in the field by Deputies and makes 25 proposals on encouraging a second wave of job recruitment for young people. The proposals include: clarifying the durability of the activity and progress in a young person's status, redoubling efforts for unskilled or low-skilled youngsters, creating scope for 26- to 30-year-olds without unemployment benefit, and developing training.
The French Government set itself the target of creating a total of 150,000 jobs for youngsters by the end of 1998. That target has been reached. On 23 November last, the Ministry for Employment and Solidarity announced that 151,926 jobs had been created (78,676 by local authorities and associations, 65,000 by the Education Ministry and 8,250 by the National Police), and that 109,014 young people had in fact been recruited. As to the nature of jobs in associations and local authorities, 60% of employers are associations, 31% are local authorities and the remaining 9% are mixed-investment companies, public housing bodies and hospitals. Most of the young people are aged under 26 (80%), but the proportion in the 26-30 age group is steadily rising. The majority of applicants are jobseekers (73%), and 20% of this group are long-term unemployed. The lower skilled have also been catered for under this programme: 30% of the young people recruited have no qualifications or at best a "CAP" (certificat d'aptitude professionnelle), and two thirds have at most passed their baccalaureate. Every sector of the economy is involved. About 15.5% of the projects are in the "family, solidarity and health" sector, 15.5% in the environmental sector, 10.9% in the arts, 8.9% in housing and the surroundings and 8.5% in education. Next come tourism, security, transport and the courts. In the public education sector, some 30% of classroom support workers are in priority education zones, 61% or whom are in primary schools and 31% in secondary schools. In the National Police, most of the backup workers are assigned to "sensitive" districts. The majority are male (82%), aged 22 to 25, 29% of whom have qualifications lower than the baccalaureate. Although the programme is developing well nationwide, the rate of success in individual départements varies a good deal, mainly according to the degree of commitment displayed by local authorities towards direct recruitment or the co-funding of the jobs created. * "Emplois-jeunes: 25 propositions pour une deuxième vague" [Jobs for young people: 25 proposals for a second wave"]. Information report no. 1211 presented by Jean-Claude Boulard, on behalf of the Committee for cultural, family and social affairs to the National Assembly on 18 November 1998.
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