Dussopt defends the financial trajectory of the Zero Unemployment Territories system

This experiment, created by law in 2020, provides for the creation of 60 “zero long-term unemployed” territories, thanks to the financing of employment-oriented businesses (EBE) with sums intended for unemployment compensation.

"In the 58 authorized territories, thanks to the territorial cooperation of all local actors - elected officials, residents, associations, structures of integration through economic activity, economic actors, public employment service, etc. -, this are more than 3.600 people who have found their way to employment even though they had been deprived of it for 4 years and 9 months on average", write 250 mayors and local elected officials in an article published at the beginning of the week by the newspaper Libération.

Two additional territories compared to the 58 are currently awaiting authorization.

These elected officials believe that "the budget allocated to the finance bill for 2024 will not allow employment-related businesses (EBEs) in authorized territories to ensure the hiring trajectories planned to achieve completeness" and therefore makes “unrealistic is the proper conduct of the project in the territories which will be authorized by June 2024”.

“This is why we unanimously appeal to public decision-makers and Emmanuel Macron so that the budget for the experiment is supplemented by an additional 20 million euros,” continue the elected officials.

“We must work on more tenable and more regulated perspectives,” Olivier Dussopt retorted in the Senate on Wednesday, adding that “the state budget is unfortunately not an elastic budget.”

By a decree of July 31, 2023, State funding of supported jobs as part of the “zero long-term unemployed” system increased from 102% of the minimum wage per job to 95% of the minimum wage.

“95% support at the minimum wage level is the highest rate of financing of subsidized jobs that we know in our country,” argued the minister.

“We are ready to work on better management to go beyond the sixty experiments and the 2024 budget provides for an increase in the budget devoted to +Zero unemployed territories+ which will increase from 44 to 69 million euros,” he said. he added, specifying that “this is an increase of 53%”.