French Labour Code
In forcePôle emploi is a national public institution with legal personality and financial autonomy, whose mission is to :
1° Prospecting the labour market, developing expertise on changes in jobs and qualifications, collecting job offers, helping and advising companies in their recruitment, ensuring that job offers and applications are matched, and actively participating in the fight against discrimination in recruitment and for professional equality ;
2° Welcoming, informing, guiding and supporting people, whether or not they have a job, who are looking for work, training or professional advice, prescribing all useful actions to develop their professional skills and improve their employability, encouraging their reclassification and professional promotion, helping to inform them about schemes for transition between work and retirement, in particular that provided for in Article L. 161-22-1-5 of the Social Security Code, facilitating their geographical and professional mobility and participating in social and professional integration pathways. In this respect, Pôle emploi contributes to the implementation of the training obligation defined inarticle L. 114-1 of the Education Code;
3° Registering jobseekers on the list, keeping the list up to date in accordance with the conditions laid down in Title I of Book IV of this Part and monitoring jobseekers in accordance with the conditions laid down in Chapter VI of Title II of Book IV;
4° Ensuring, on behalf of the body managing the unemployment insurance scheme, the service of the insurance allowance and the allowance for self-employed workers and, on behalf of the State, the service of the solidarity allowances provided for in Section 1 of Chapter III of Title II of Book IV of this Part, the allowances mentioned in Article L. 5424-21, the assistance provided for in II of Article 136 of the Finance Act No. 96-1181 of 30 December 1996 for 1997, the sums remaining due in respect of the payment of the retirement equivalent allowance provided for in Article L. 5423-18, as it read prior to 1 January 2009, and the sums remaining due in respect of the flat-rate bonus provided for in Article L. 5425-3, as it read prior to 1 September 2017, as well as the servicing of any other allowance or assistance whose payment the State entrusts to it by agreement ;
4° bis Decide on the withdrawal of replacement income and the imposition of an administrative penalty, and recover this penalty, under the conditions set out in sections 2 and 3 of Chapter VI of Title II of Book IV of this Part;
5° Collecting, processing, disseminating and making available to government departments and the body managing the unemployment insurance scheme data relating to the labour market and jobseeker compensation;
6° To implement all other actions entrusted to it by the State, local authorities and the body managing the unemployment insurance scheme in relation to its mission;
7° Implementing the youth commitment contract mentioned in article L. 5131-6 and, on behalf of the State, allocating, adjusting, paying, suspending and withdrawing the allowance mentioned in the same article L. 5131-6 and the one-off allowance mentioned in article L. 5131-5, under the conditions set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.
Pôle emploi works in collaboration with local bodies involved in the field of employment, in particular employment centres, as well as with national associations and specialised reception and support networks, through appropriate partnerships.
