The “zero unemployed territory” system makes “proof of its usefulness” but remains expensive, according to the Court of Auditors

The experimentation “zero long -term unemployed territory” makes “Locally proof of its usefulness”But the system is expensive, estimates the Court of Auditors in a report published Thursday, June 19. Established by a law in 2016, this experiment allows voluntary territories to create “Companies for employment”Who recruit people who are durably distant from employment on permanent contracts, recalls the court.

It was extended in 2020 and must in principle end on June 30, 2026. The parliament must decide its fate before this deadline. At the end of 2024, the system concerned 83 territories and “3 290 employees from sustainable employment “. Initially, the idea of ​​the initiators of the experiment was that the mobilized money was equivalent to the overall cost of care for unemployment, estimated at 18,000 euros per person and per year. But, underlines the court, “this estimate was denied” by an official report in 2019.

The report indicates that the experiment requires “High, both human and financial means”. They fall under a financial imbalance “patent”With expenses of 57.1 million euros in 2024 for the State (compared to 5.8 million in 2017) and 7.5 million for departments. “The amount of public funding in 2023, relating to the number of employees benefiting from the full -time equivalent experiment (ETP), reveals an annual cost of 28,000 euros per ETP”observe the report.

The wise men also point “Atypical governance”. The management of the experiment has been entrusted to an association which manages the territorial experimentation fund against long -term unemployment, whose monitoring by state administrations is exercised “at a minimum”. The Court considers that“It is necessary to put an end to the management of the public funds concerned by an association” and wish “That the approach is part of common law policies in favor of employment”.