Reuters reports that the French government plans to tighten controls on the unemployed and increase penalties against those who fail to look hard enough for a job. The government is set to triple to 600 by 2019 the number of staff dedicated to monitoring job seekers and add a further 400 by 2020, the labour ministry said while adding that it would increase sanctions against those who failed to look properly for work. This would include those jobseekers who refuse what the unemployment office deemed a “reasonable” job offer or failing to fill in a monthly job search log that will be introduced next year. Jobseekers who miss appointments with job councillors will also incur a penalty.