INTERVIEW
Emmanuel Macron, during his televised address on Thursday evening, announced “exceptional and massive” measures to protect employees and businesses ”, first with a strengthening of the partial unemployment scheme which, said Emmanuel Macron, will go a lot further than what exists today. Partial unemployment allows SMEs faced with a sudden fall in their activity to keep their employees - even if they are not working - and to continue to compensate them with aid financed by both the State and Insurance unemployment. What does Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, President of Medef, guest of Europe 1 on Friday morning think about it?
"It is not the time to ask questions. We will do the accounts afterwards. This may seem surprising on the part of the president of Medef, but we are not in a situation where we have to butt, wiggle, hesitate. The most important thing is to save the thousands of businesses that no longer have any turnover. The crèches that will close as of Monday will have their employees, their taxes to pay ... Everything must be done to avoid going out of this crisis, in a few months, without companies and without jobs. "
In these particular times, does it still make sense to debate pension reform, when the National Assembly is also affected by the coronavirus? "We can ask ourselves the question of suspending the debates for a few weeks because everyone must be behind this sacred union. I will say to the unions: let's leave aside the angry subjects. We must put all the energy of the country to stop this epidemic. "