Brussels. Its employment rate which painfully stagnates at 62 %. Its 90,000 unemployed unemployed, including an alarming proportion of young people without perspectives. A very low instruction rate, in general. In a metropolitan region in the heart of Europe, where tension on certain trades continues to grow, this paradox is not only a social scandal. It is an admission of political failure. At the center of the system supposed to regulate this fractured labor market, Actiris, the Regional Employment Office, today resembles a house without an architect. Despite a substantial budget and reforms announced with a lot of communication, the agency continues to operate according to a obsolete and ineffective logic. The conclusions of the Court of Auditors of 2023 remain current: late care, massive territorial inequalities, largely perfectible governance, absence of rigorous monitoring, defaulting internal control, lacunar assessments, and above all, support which, in fact, concerns only a minority of priority unemployed. Added to this is a control system that dilutes responsibility and slows down decisions. Result: an unemployed person supposed to be controlled out of three is indeed. And only 1% of them are sanctioned. The lack of precise information to the beneficiaries aggravates the fracture.
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