Définition
Jobseekers are people who are registered with « France Travail » in categories A, B or C. Registration on these lists is subject to certain conditions. Depending on their situation regarding the obligation to seek employment and whether they are working or not, people registered with « France Travail » are grouped into five categories:
- category A includes jobless jobseekers obliged to actively seek a job ;
- category B includes jobseekers having performed a short-term reduced activity and obliged to actively seek a job (i.e. 78 hours or less in the course of the month );
- category C includes jobseekers having performed a long-term reduced activity and obliged to actively seek a job (i.e. more than 78 hours in the course of the month );
- category D includes jobless people not obliged to actively seek a job (because of an internship, a training course, an illness, etc), including the job-seekers in agreement of personalised reclassifying (CRP), in contract of professional transition ( CTP) and in professional safeguard contract (CSP);
- category E includes employed people not obliged to actively seek a job (for example: beneficiaries of subsidised contracts, business creators).