32% of Mahorais have a job
In the second quarter of 2021, 51,000 people had a job in Mayotte, according to the latest INSEE survey. This level is close to that of 2019, before the start of the health crisis. However, between 2019 and 2021, the working age population continued to increase. Fact, only 32% of 15-64 year olds have a job in 2021, i.e. 3 points less than in 2019. People employed at home, those born abroad as well as men aged 30 to 49 are the most affected by the crisis : their employment rate declines sharply. The situation of young people is not getting worse, thanks to an extension of their studies. But 25,000 young people aged 15 to 29, i.e. more than a third of this age group – a share three times higher than elsewhere in France – are still neither in employment, nor in studies, you a formation. The Mahorais unemployment rate stands at 30%, at a level equivalent to that observed between 2016 and 2019. To the 22,000 unemployed people as defined by the International Labor Office, add 34,000 unemployed people who wish to work, but who are not considered unemployed mainly because they do not take any active job search steps.
Departmental elected officials reject the “Mayotte law”
On January 13, the Departmental Council of Mayotte issued a unanimously unfavorable opinion on the bill “for accelerated development of Mayotte”. A week earlier, the Economic Council, social and environmental of Mayotte had for its part issued a “very reserved” opinion, deploring in particular the absence of a program law financially committing the State. Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas, took note of this rebuff, fueled by many discontents, while the project was to be presented to the council of ministers at the beginning of February. The text proposes in particular to increase from three months to one year the duration of the parents' legal situation so that their child born on Mahoran soil obtains French nationality..
