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Jobless claims in France down for second consecutive month in April

Xinhua, May 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

France saw the number of jobless people registered in mainland France fell, for the second successive month, by 19,000 to 3.511 million in April, down by 0.6 percent from March, labor ministry data showed on Wednesday.

Year-on-year basis,the government, already in torrid battle to reverse alarming unemployment rate, numbered 0.6 percent less people registered out of work.

Including overseas territories, jobless claims also fell by 0.6 percent at the end of April.

Over the period, the number of unemployed youth, which represents a large slice of the country's total jobseekers was down by 1 percent from March while that of senior people without work inched down by 0.3 percent, the ministry added.

"The government remains determined to consolidate recovery and accelerate the effects on employment so that the decline will continue," Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri said.

April fall, the steepest decline since 2015, may be a good music to the ear of President Francois Hollande who set reversing joblessness a main condition to run for re-election in 2017.

In a recent prime-time television, Hollande said "thing are going better", arguing that the reforms are beginning to bear fruits. Endit