The first figures on the economic consequences of the health crisis in France will not reassure. These show in fact how many companies need state aid.
[1/2] Partial unemployment: in two days, 500,000 employees and 60,000 additional companies protected. Since the start of the crisis, 1.2 million employees and nearly 100,000 companies have been affected. We protect businesses and jobs.
- Muriel Pénicaud (@murielpenicaud) March 25, 2020The Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, said on Wednesday evening "nearly 100,000 companies in partial unemployment". "Since the start of the crisis, 1.2 million employees and almost 100,000 businesses have been affected"; clarified the minister. On Tuesday, the figure was 37,000 companies and 700,000 employees.
Direccte does not satisfy FO
Asked for several days about the existence of refusals of applications by the administration, Muriel Pénicaud affirms that "only 28 requests for partial unemployment had been refused in a justified manner". At the beginning of the week, the minister had given "instructions to the Direcctes (regional labor offices), which are [the] regional services, extremely precise, so that there is no difference in interpretation". However Tuesday, FO metals had complained that "certain Direccte refused files of assumption of responsibility, thus obliging the companies to resume their activity".
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