On September 15, 2018, during the Heritage Days organized in the gardens of the Elysée Palace, Emmanuel Macron declared to a young man who claimed he could not find a job in the horticultural sector: “I cross the street and I find you a job “. Almost four years later, in these same gardens but this time on the occasion of the traditional television interview on July 14, the Head of State reiterated his statements.
“Sometimes I said in this garden that you had to cross the street. It is even more true”, he said today during this television interview.
To support his statements, the President of the Republic assured that “today there is no place in France where we do not say ‘I need a job’, ‘I am looking for people to work'”. According to the latest Banque de France business survey conducted at the beginning of the summer, 6 out of 10 managers have difficulty recruiting.
“National solidarity are those who work who pay for it”
“We are a country that has experienced massive unemployment for decades, it leaves traces. (…) Covid has greatly destabilized the relationship with work, we have to remobilize, ”he continued, proposing possible explanations for this hiring crisis.
Caroline Roux, one of the two journalists who interviewed the Head of State, however raised another problem that could explain this dynamic, namely wages that are too low for jobs that are often physically demanding, such as catering.
“If they can find and go to another job, I’m fine. If behind the answer is: ‘I’m going to benefit from national solidarity to think about my life’, I have a hard time hearing it. Because this national solidarity, it is those who work who pay for it”, swept the president.
Source: BFM TV
