Employment: 7% of offers published on France Travail are illegal, CGT says there are many more…

Permanent contracts that turn out to be temporary assignments, 35 hours are displayed for part-time work… About 7% of job offers published on the France Travail website (formerly Pôle emploi) do not comply with the legal framework, the operator indicated on Friday. In turn, CGT claims that this figure reaches 61.1%, but France Travail disputes this result.

Every year, the National Committee of Unemployed and Precarious Workers CGT (CNTPEP-CGT) carries out a study on the “illegality of job offers”, published on the website pole-emploi.fr. The sixteenth edition, focused on the cities hosting the Olympic Games (Paris, Nice, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Saint-Denis, Lille, Saint-Etienne), as well as the most affected sectors (construction, transport, personal services), analyzed 1915 The proposals were taken from the website, the union indicated in a press release.

“The conclusion is clear: of the 1,915 job offers examined, 1,170 are illegal under the Labor Code, or 61.1%,” writes CGT. “The same offer is broadcast more than thirty times on different channels, permanent contracts that turn out to be temporary appointments for a week or even a day, personal service platforms that promise 35 hours for a full day, very partially (…): the reasons for illegality are many ! “says the union.

Report “questionable offers”

For its part, France Travail disputes the reliability of this study, pointing to “a certain number of methodological shortcomings.” The state operator, in particular, notes the “conflation of quality and legality”, for example, “condemning the publication of the same offer on several channels.” The operator emphasizes that it “conducts an annual study on the legality of the published offers, using a methodology verified by an independent firm, the results of which are shared with France Travail’s partners.”

“In 2023, a study of 5 thousand proposals showed that 92.9% of proposals published on the site comply with the legal framework,” the same source points out. However, France Travail encourages job seekers to report offers “that they consider questionable” to their adviser or online, and assures that it will “closely review” all cases identified in the CGT study.

The union calls for “an immediate end to the monitoring of those deprived of work and the retroactive re-registration of all France Travail users deregistered due to insufficient job search or refusal of offers.”