French Labor Minister Xavier Bertrand said on Sunday he did not expect an "immediate improvement" of the domestic job market hit hard by combined effects of debt crisis and sluggish economy.

"There won't be immediate improvement of the employment issue in the coming months...But we have to avoid that unemployment explodes," Bertrand said in an interview with the French broadcaster Europe 1.

"We need to propose solutions to the unemployed people and also receive them as soon as possible," he added.

Early this week, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a 500-million-euro (646.6 million U.S. dollars) "package of emergency measures," including "radical reform of vocational training" and strengthening the capacity of public employment services by creating additional 1,000 jobs.

"By February, all the job seekers who are unemployed for two years will be seen individually and will be offered a solution," Bertrand noted.

Caught in a financial storm and facing a sluggish economy, France reported 29,900 unemployed people in November, up by 5.2 percent year on year.