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Nine ways a French job centre can help jobseekers - and employers

From CV advice to language lessons the new France Travail is gearing up to increase employment

French jobseeker rebrand aims to inspire ‘active’ take on employment

Ditching the old ‘Pôle Emploi’ moniker is accompanied by plans to make people on unemployment benefits do weekly ‘insertion’ work

Labour shortage: France plans to tighten unemployment benefit rules

The government hopes to bring the unemployment rate down to 5% by 2027. It is currently at 7.4%

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France implements more controls to check for unemployment fraud

Pôle emploi can now access more details on jobseekers in a bid to detect benefit fraud

19% rise in resignations since Covid fuels French jobs boom

The pandemic has pushed people to explore alternative career paths, and has created a surge in opportunities. Some three million posts are expected to be on offer this year

French unemployment benefits: What changes for job seekers today?

New calculations will reduce monthly payments for 1.15 million newly unemployed people, as a minister says some people ‘earn more being unemployed than working’

Job centre advisor and HR director shot dead in east France

A man killed two people yesterday, one at a former place of work, the other at an unemployment agency. Police have linked him to a similar killing earlier this week

Restaurants cook up plan to fill French job vacancies

At the end of 2018, France's jobs agency Pôle Emploi said there were 286,000 unfilled jobs in the sector

Jobless figure in France lowest in decade

President Macron has pledged to cut unemployment to 7% by the end of his five-year mandate in 2022

New job offers in France 'highest in 10 years'

Employers expect to create more than 2.5million new jobs in 2019, many on long-term contracts

French President defends ‘cross the street’ job quip

French President Emmanuel Macron has defended his comments about how people can “just cross the street to get a job”, when questioned by a father whose son has been looking for work for nine months.

Tougher sanctions for failing to seek work

Unemployed people claiming state benefits in France now face stronger sanctions - including the suspension of payments for up to four months - if they miss meetings or other key obligations.