France's monthly jobless rate increases in December

The French unemployment rate in December rose 0.2 percent from November and saw a year-on-year growth of 5.7 percent, the country's Labor Ministry announced Tuesday.

In December alone, 8,100 people were reported without job, making the total number of jobless hit 3.496 million in the mainland, the ministry's data showed.

"The full implementation of the responsibility pact and the improvement of the economic climate will boost job creation in 2015," said Labor Minister Francois Rebsamen in a statement, promising that"the government's efforts will not falter" to reverse a long rise in joblessness rate.

With 30-billion-euro (34 billion U.S. dollars) cut in payroll charges and by pumping millions of euro to finance job contracts for poorly-skilled young people without work, the government targets to encourage investment and recruitments to number less than 3 millions of jobless people by the end of 2017.

Analysts said the eurozone's second largest economy needed to quicken its growth at least by 1 percent to start absorbing the large slice of jobseekers.

For 2015, the government targets to expand national wealth by 1 percent from an expected 0.4 percent in 2014. Endit