The employment of seniors in Côte-d’Or at the heart of a round table with a minister

Laurent @pietraszewski_l, Secretary of State in charge of pensions and occupational health traveling to Dijon. 2nd sequence, round table on the employment of seniors, discussions on good practices and initiatives taken locally. pic.twitter.com/QXkLDkJ9b7

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Focus on training

These seniors represent, on average, 25% of the unemployed in the areas around Dijon or Beaune. On the other hand, the agglomeration of Montbard in the north of the Côte-d’Or is more affected according to Pôle Emploi, with a proportion of 32% of seniors looking for work.

For Jean-François Locatelli, one of the characteristics of these seniors looking for a job is a lower than average level of qualification. “They have, on average, a CAP or a BEP“, he specifies. This is why Laurent Pietraszewski wants to insist on training, including for those who are still active.

This is also the opinion of Bruno Fournier, vice-president of Restos du Coeur in Côte-d’Or. Seniors are the people he has seen the most in recent months now to ask for help, especially to find a job. “They are sometimes in a rather worrying psychological state“, he judges.

The seniors who come to us are sometimes in a worrying psychological state “, Bruno Fournier, vice-president of Restos du coeur in Côte-d’Or

For Bruno Fournier, we must first settle what he calls the “peripheral problems“, namely the personal problems experienced by the senior, before helping him find a job.

The problem is that unemployed seniors stay there much longer than others. People over 50 remain 700 days without a job, against nearly 400 days according to the Court of Auditors.

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