Representatives of the National Group of Unemployed Higher Education Graduates Demand Funding for Recruitment
Representatives of the national group of higher education graduates who have been unemployed for over ten years demanded, on Tuesday morning, the allocation of funds in the 2026 finance law for their recruitment.
In a statement to the media on the sidelines of a conference held at the headquarters of the Tunisian Journalists' National Union (SNJT), the spokesperson for the national group, Yosra Neji, emphasized the need to amend the 2026 finance law project to include funds for the direct recruitment, without competition, of long-term unemployed graduates in the public sector and civil service, taking into account age and year of graduation as priority criteria.
She noted that the current version of the 2026 finance law project only provides for the recruitment of long-term unemployed graduates in the private sector or through community companies, completely excluding the possibility of integrating them into the public sector or civil service, which she described as an injustice and a violation of their rights.
Yosra Neji also called for the rapid adoption of bill No. 023/2023, which aims to establish an exceptional law allowing the specific integration of long-term unemployed higher education graduates aged over 40 into the labor market within the public sector and civil service.
The speaker further announced that a national sit-in will be held on Wednesday, October 29, on the Bardo Square, in front of the headquarters of the People's Representatives Assembly (ARP), to demand the urgent regularization of the situation of long-term unemployed graduates.
