The Minister of Labour, Employment and Economic Inclusion (), commonly just referred to as Minister of Labour, is a cabinet member in the

Government of France The Government of France (French: ''Gouvernement français''), officially the Government of the French Republic (''Gouvernement de la République française'' ), exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the Prime Minister, who ...

. The minister is responsible for employment, labour legislation as well as the integration of foreigners. Following Élisabeth Borne's appointment as

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

on 16 May 2022, the minister is Olivier Dussopt.

History

The position was originally known as Minister of Labour (''Ministre du Travail''), created in 1906, and later, Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions (''Ministre du Travail et Prévoyance sociale''). After its 1906 creation, the ''

Inspection du travail The ''Inspection du travail'' (IT, ''Labour inspection'') is a French specialized body of civil servants, charged of the surveillance of employment and labour law in firms, created in 1892 during the Third Republic. History The Labour inspectio ...

'' (IT, Labour Inspection) service was integrated to it. After the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, the position was renamed Minister of Social Affairs. In its current state, the position was brought back in 1981 (after almost a decade) under the presidency of

François Mitterrand François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party, he ...

—as a result of the economic situation of France in the 1980s—to oversee issues of social exclusion,

unemployment Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the refe ...

, racism, sexism and social justice. The seat of the ministry is the hôtel du Châtelet, an 18th-century neoclassical palace located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Hôtel du Châtelet JP2011 façade cour

List of ministers of labour

Third Republic

Gaston Doumergue Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue (; 1 August 1863 in Aigues-Vives, Gard18 June 1937 in Aigues-Vives) was a French politician of the Third Republic. He served as President of France from 13 June 1924 to 13 June 1931. Biography Doumergue cam ...

(14 March 1906 – 25 octobre 1906) * René Viviani (25 October 1906 – 2 November 1910) *

Louis Lafferre Louis Lafferre (10 May 1861 – 28 February 1929) was a French politician. He belonged to the Radical Party. Lafferre was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and began his political career as a local councillor in Narbonne. He was a member of ...

(3 November 1910 – 1 March 1911) *

Joseph Paul-Boncour Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour (; 4 August 1873 – 28 March 1972) was a French politician and diplomat of the Third Republic. He was a member of the Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) and served as Prime Minister of France from December 19 ...

(2 March 1911 – 26 November 1911) * René Renoult (27 November 1911 – 13 January 1912) *

Léon Bourgeois Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (; 21 May 185129 September 1925) was a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party regarding a wide range of issues. He promoted progressive taxation such as progressive income taxes and social insu ...

(14 January 1912 – 20 January 1913) * René Besnard (21 January 1913 – 21 March 1913) *

Henry Chéron Henry Frédéric Chéron (11 May 1867 – 14 April 1936) was a French lawyer and politician who became active in local politics in the Calvados department of Normandy while still a young man, and always maintained his roots in Normandy. He was el ...

(22 March 1913 – 8 December 1913) *

Albert Métin Emile Albert Métin (28 January 1871 – 16 August 1918) was a French teacher and professor of history and geography, a prolific author and a politician who was twice Minister of Labor and Social Welfare. Life Early years Albert Métin was born ...

(9 December 1913 – 8 June 1914) *

Jean-Baptiste Abel Jean-Baptiste Eugène Abel (12 January 1863 – 30 September 1921) was a French politician who was briefly Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, and later was Governor-General of Algeria. Early years Jean-Baptiste Eugène Abel was born in Toul ...

(9 June 1914 – 13 June 1914) *

Maurice Couyba Charles Maurice Couyba (1 January 1866 – 18 November 1931) was a French professor and politician. He was a deputy from 1897 to 1907, then a senator from 1907 to 1920. He was Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1911 to 1912, and was briefly ...

(13 June 1914 – 26 August 1914) * Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin (27 August 1914 – 30 October 1915) *

(30 October 1915 – 14 December 1916) * Étienne Clémentel (14 December 1916 – 20 March 1917) *

(20 March 1917 – 12 September 1917) *

André Renard André Renard (25 May 191120 July 1962) was a Belgian trade union leader who, in the aftermath of World War II, became an influential figure within the Walloon Movement. Born into a working-class family, Renard was as a metalworker in the L ...

(12 September 1917 – 11 November 1917) * Pierre Colliard (11 November 1917 – 2 December 1919) *

Paul Jourdain Paul Léon Jourdain (28 October 1878 – 26 March 1948) was a French industrialist and politician who was a deputy from 1919 to 1927 and a senator from 1927 to 1944. He was Minister of Labor in 1919–21 and for a brief period in 1924. He was Min ...

( 2 December 1919 – 16 January 1921) *

Daniel Vincent Charles Augustin Daniel Vincent (31 March 1874 – 3 May 1946), known as Daniel-Vincent, was a French teacher and politician. He was a deputy from 1910 to 1927, then a senator from 1927 to 1941. During World War I (1914–18) he served as an avia ...

(16 January 1921 – 15 January 1922) * Albert Peyronnet (15 January 1922 – 29 March 1924) *

(29 March 1924 – 9 June 1924) *

(9 June 1924 – 14 June 1924) *

Justin Godart Justin Godart (26 November 1871 – 12 December 1956) was a French lawyer and politician who served as the Minister for Health from 3 June 1932 to 18 December 1932.Antoine Durafour (17 April 1925 – 19 July 1926) * Louis Pasquet (19 July 1926 – 23 July 1926) * André Fallières (23 July 1926 – 1 June 1928) *

Louis Loucheur Louis Loucheur (12 August 1872 in Roubaix, Nord – 22 November 1931 in Paris) was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Ind ...

(1 June 1928 – 2 March 1930) *

Pierre Laval Pierre Jean Marie Laval (; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. During the Third Republic, he served as Prime Minister of France from 27 January 1931 to 20 February 1932 and 7 June 1935 to 24 January 1936. He again occ ...

(2 March 1930 – 13 December 1930) * Édouard Grinda (13 December 1930 – 27 January 1931) *

Adolphe Landry Michel Auguste Adolphe Landry (29 September 1874 – 30 August 1956) was a French demographer and politician. He was deputy and then senator for Corsica between 1910 and 1955. He was Minister of the Navy from 1920 to 1921, Minister of Public Ed ...

(27 January 1931 – 20 February 1932) *

(20 February 1932 – 3 June 1932) *

Albert Dalimier Albert François Marie Dalimier (20 February 1875 – 6 May 1936) was a French politician. Between 1932 and 1934 he was Minister of Labor, Minister of the Colonies (twice) and Minister of Justice in four of the short-lived cabinets of that perio ...

(4 June 1932 – 31 January 1933) *

François Albert François Albert (4 April 1877 – 23 November 1933) was a French journalist and politician. He was violently anti-clerical. Albert was Minister of Education in 1924–25, and Minister of Labor in 1933. As education minister he promoted secular s ...

(31 January 1933 – 26 October 1933) * Eugène Frot (26 October 1933 – 26 November 1933) * Lucien Lamoureux (26 November 1933 – 9 January 1934) * Eugène Frot (9 January 1934 – 30 January 1934) * Jean Valadier (30 January 1934 – 9 February 1934) * Adrien Marquet (9 February 1934 – 8 November 1934) *

Paul Jacquier Paul Jacquier (26 March 1879 – 3 March 1961) was a French senator. Positions *MP of Haute-Savoie from 1909 to 1919 and from 1924 to 1935 *Senator of Haute-Savoie from 1935 to 1940 *Undersecretary of State for Fine Arts on Dec. 9 1913 to 9 June ...

(8 November 1934 – 1 June 1935) *

Ludovic-Oscar Frossard Ludovic-Oscar Frossard (5 March 1889 – 11 February 1946), also known as L.-O. Frossard or Oscar Frossard, was a French socialist and communist politician. He was a founding member in 1905 and Secretary-General of the French Socialist Party (S ...

(1 June 1935 – 4 June 1935) *

Jean-Baptiste Lebas Jean-Baptiste Lebas (; 24 October 1878 – 10 March 1944) was a French Socialist politician, deputy to the National Assembly of France during the Third Republic, who served twice as minister under Léon Blum’s governments. He was mayor of Rou ...

(4 June 1936 – 22 June 1937) * André Février (22 June 1937 – 18 January 1938) * Paul Ramadier (18 January 1938 – 13 March 1938) * Albert Sérol (13 March 1938 – 10 April 1938) * Paul Ramadier (10 April 1938 – 21 August 1938) * Charles Pomaret (21 August 1938 – 16 June 1940) * André Février (16 June 1940 – 27 June 1940) * Charles Pomaret (27 June 1940 – 12 July 1940)

Vichy France Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its t ...

René Belin René Belin (14 April 1898 – 2 January 1977) was a French trade unionist and politician. In the 1930s he became one of the leaders of the French General Confederation of Labour. He was strongly opposed to communism. In the prelude to World Wa ...

(15 July 1940 – 18 April 1942) * Hubert Lagardelle (20 April 1942 – 23 November 1943) * Jean Bichelonne (23 November 1943 – 17 March 1944) * Marcel Déat (17 March 1944 – 20 August 1944)

Provisional Government of the French Republic The Provisional Government of the French Republic (PGFR; french: Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (''GPRF'')) was the provisional government of Free France between 3 June 1944 and 27 October 1946, following the liberatio ...

* Adrien Tixier (7 June 1944 – 9 September 1944) (

French Committee of National Liberation The French Committee of National Liberation (french: Comité français de Libération nationale) was a provisional government of Free France formed by the French generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle to provide united leadership, orga ...

) * René Sanson (28 August 1944 – 5 September 1944) (

Provisional Government of the French Republic The Provisional Government of the French Republic (PGFR; french: Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (''GPRF'')) was the provisional government of Free France between 3 June 1944 and 27 October 1946, following the liberatio ...

) * Alexandre Parodi (10 September 1944 – 21 November 1945) (

) *

Ambroise Croizat Ambroise Croizat (28 January 1901 – 11 February 1951) was a French syndicalist and communist politician. As the minister of Labour and of Social security, he founded the French Social security system (or social safety net) and the retirement sy ...

(21 November 1945 – 16 December 1946) (

)

Fourth Republic

* Daniel Mayer (16 December 1946 – 22 January 1947) *

(22 January 1947 – 4 May 1947) * Robert Lacoste (4 May 1947 – 9 May 1947) * Daniel Mayer (9 May 1947 – 28 October 1949) *

Pierre Ségelle Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(29 October 1949 – 7 February 1950) * Paul Bacon (7 February 1950 – 8 March 1952) * Pierre Garet (8 March 1952 – 8 January 1953) * Paul Bacon (8 January 1953 – 19 June 1954) *

Eugène Claudius-Petit Eugène Claudius-Petit was a French politician. He participated in many governments under the Fourth Republic and was a proponent of Firminy Vert. He later added his pseudonym from the Resistance, "Claudius", to his name. Early life and care ...

(19 June 1954 – 3 September 1954) * Louis-Paul Aujoulat (3 September 1954 – 23 February 1955) * Paul Bacon (23 February 1955 – 1 February 1956) *

Albert Gazier Albert Gazier (16 May 1908 – 2 March 1997) was a French trade union leader and politician. During World War II (1939–45) he helped reorganize the unions during the German occupation of France. He escaped arrest by the Gestapo, made his way to ...

(1 February 1956 – 6 November 1957) * Paul Bacon (6 November 1957 – 8 January 1959)

Fifth Republic

Jean-Marcel Jeanneney Jean-Marcel Jeanneney (13 November 1910 – 17 September 2010) was minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian War. Born in Paris, he has ...

(8 January 1966 – 30 May 1968) * Maurice Schumann (30 May 1968 – 20 June 1969) * Edgar Faure (6 July 1972 – 28 March 1973) * Nicole Questiaux (22 May 1981 – 29 June 1982) *

Pierre Bérégovoy Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (; 23 December 1925 – 1 May 1993) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under President François Mitterrand from 2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993. He was a member of the Socialist Party (Fran ...

(29 June 1982 – 17 July 1984) *

Georgina Dufoix Georgina Dufoix (born Georgina Nègre on 16 February 1942) is a French politician, who served as Minister of Social Affairs and National Solidarity from 1984 to 1986, in the government of Laurent Fabius Laurent Fabius (; born 20 August 194 ...

(19 July 1984 – 7 December 1984) *

Philippe Séguin Philippe Séguin (21 April 1943 – 7 January 2010) was a French political figure who was President of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997 and President of the Cour des Comptes of France from 2004 to 2010. He entered the Court of Financi ...

(20 March 1986 – 12 May 1988) *

Michel Delebarre Michel Delebarre (27 April 1946 – 9 April 2022) was a French politician who was a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Nord department, and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. He was also mayor o ...

(12 May 1988 – 23 June 1988) * Claude Évin (23 June 1988 – 16 May 1991) * Jean-Louis Bianco (16 May 1991 – 2 April 1992) *

René Teulade René Teulade (17 June 1931 – 13 February 2014) was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Corrèze department. He was a member of the Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the ...

(2 April 1992 – 29 March 1993) *

Simone Veil Simone Veil (; ; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. ...

(29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995) * Colette Codaccioni (18 May 1995 – 7 November 1995) * Eric Raoult (18 May 1995 – 7 November 1995) * Jacques Barrot (7 November 1995 – 4 June 1997) *

Jean-Claude Gaudin Jean-Claude Gaudin (; born 8 October 1939) is a French politician for The Republicans. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020. He was a member of the National Assembly of France from Bouches-du-Rhône from 1978 to 1989 and has be ...

(7 November 1995 – 4 June 1997) *

Martine Aubry Martine Louise Marie Aubry (; née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste'', or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (No ...

(4 June 1997 – 18 October 2000) *

Élisabeth Guigou Élisabeth Guigou (; born Élisabeth Vallier; 6 August 1946) is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2017, representing Seine-Saint-Denis' 9th constituency. Early life and ...

(18 October 2000 – 7 May 2002) * François Fillon (7 May 2002 – 31 March 2004) * Jean-Louis Borloo (31 March 2004 – 18 May 2007) * Xavier Bertrand (18 May 2007 – 15 January 2009) *

Brice Hortefeux Brice Hortefeux (born 11 May 1958) is a conservative French politician. He was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities. He was previously Minister for Labour, Labour Relations, the Family, Solidarity and Ur ...

(16 January 2009 – 23 June 2009) *

Xavier Darcos Xavier Darcos (born 14 July 1947) is a French politician, scholar, civil servant and former Minister of Labour. An ''agrégé'' professor in literature and general inspector of the National Education system, he has been Mayor of Périgueux, ...

(23 June 2009 – 21 March 2010) *

Éric Woerth Éric Woerth (born 29 January 1956) is a French politician of The Republicans (LR). Early life and education Woerth was born in Creil, Oise. He studied at Panthéon-Assas University, HEC School of Management and Institut d'Études Politiques ...

(21 March 2010 – 14 November 2010) * Xavier Bertrand (14 November 2010 – 10 May 2012) * Michel Sapin/ Marisol Touraine (16 May 2012 – 2017) * Muriel Pénicaud (17 May 2017 – 6 July 2020) * Élisabeth Borne (6 July 2020 – 16 May 2022) * Olivier Dussopt (16 May 2022 – present)

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