The Dares (Ministry of Labor) is publishing the unemployment figures for October, the last ones before re-confinement. And, would you believe it, they are good! For the sixth consecutive time, the number of category A unemployed individuals (= no activity) has decreased in a month (-60,000), which is four times more than in September (17,000).
Thanks to the rebound in activity and partial unemployment, which allow the Dares to assert that it has not “observed (since March) any real increase in new registrations at Pôle emploi.” Reassuring.
The number of category A job seekers (without activity) decreased again (-1.6%) in October, with 60,100 fewer registered, bringing the total to 3.794 million, according to the figures published on Wednesday, November 25, by the Dares (Directorate for Research, Studies, and Statistics), which is part of the Ministry of Labor.
Despite this sixth consecutive monthly decrease, the number of unemployed remains 10% higher than at the end of February, before the start of the health crisis. Including reduced activity (categories B and C), the number of job seekers decreased by 0.7% (-40,800), for the fourth consecutive month, to 6.004 million.
