Now I am not against compensation for the compensated ... but in this case, we do it for ALL the compensated: long illnesses, disabled, retired, young scholars ... etc etc ...
There is no reason...
In this regard: should I remember that retirees weigh much more heavily in social systems than the unemployed ... Ben what they have paid for? Well yes just like the unemployed ...
When I work I contribute to unemployment insurance and for retirement, which is a deferred salary, have I always learned.
This deferred salary, some do not have the chance to touch it (premature death), others will be able to benefit greatly from it (centenary); it is true that there is a certain form of injustice there.
For unemployment insurance, you contribute for a certain period of contribution proportional to your contribution time. When you exceed your allotted time for compensation, you become a long-term unemployed.
There are certainly unemployed people who are choosy and who would like to find an equivalent salary right away, while the company offering them a job is not at the same level.
Others are difficult to adapt.
There are unfortunately many others who do not have sufficient training which would open many doors for them. Very often this is where the shoe pinches;
companies should be obliged to have their staff carry out internships allowing them to acquire greater openness.
In most schools, including vocational schools, students are not taught job search techniques, make CVs, cover letters adapted to different advertisements, interview simulations.
If they had this knowledge many might not end up long-term unemployed
For my part, 25 years ago (I have 64), I was dismissed, when I thought my path mapped out until retirement. I was in the merchant marine, and French legislation having changed, the shipowners began to relocate.
I had a very good salary, then a good unemployment benefit, then after 3 months of intensive research, nothing on the horizon.
Unemployed is a difficult situation, especially when you have school children. So I started looking for a bit of everything, in order to prove my desire to work again and stay in the working world.
So I accepted a position (in the printing press) where my net salary was half of my unemployment benefit, I drooled a little, but after 18 months, I was 3/4 of my unemployment benefit (by going regularly to ask the boss for a raise). I had invested in professional books in order to fully understand the profession and try to be unbeatable.
After 2 years, I changed company (SAV printing) with a promotion, but, I had to leave my native Brittany with family and luggage.
7 years later, relicenciement, then repatriation to Brittany where I am taken up in my 1st printing house, which had changed heads in the meantime.
I ended my active life there and don't regret anything.
Unemployed must be a job at full-time if you want to have a chance to find something, and remember that the job center provides barely 30% of the jobs filled.
There are also thousands of unfilled jobs every year.
The unfortunate thing in all of this is that the unemployed person who has become long-term, generally puts it in his head that he will find nothing.
He relaxes his discipline of life, does not get up in the morning, is no longer interested in much, no longer looks for anything or wrong.
The goal of making these long-term unemployed work is to get them used to a discipline of life, to try to revive them.
The idea in itself is good, but having them work with ridiculous compensation will not motivate them.
They must be made to work 2 or 3 hours a day, in the morning, preferably from 8 am and pay these hours at the minimum wage.