The number of employees taken in charge by the State in the name of partial unemployment continues to increase, consequence of the health crisis triggered by the new coronavirus. Some 9.6 million employees, belonging to 785,000 businesses or administrative structures, now benefit from this system, or nearly one in two employees in the private sector. A way for companies to keep their employees, however, deprived of work, in the hope of a rapid resumption of their activity.
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"This is an extraordinary situation, never known in France," recalled Muriel Pénicaud, the Minister of Labor, on RTL. With a budgetary cost, shared between the State and Unédic, which reaches an exorbitant amount. In the new amending finance bill, currently being examined in Parliament, 24 billion euros are budgeted for this expense, almost three times more than what had been planned in the emergency plan put in place at the start of containment. .
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No end of partial unemployment on May 11
The Minister of Labor is already considering the development of this system with the end of confinement. "On May 11, we will not close short-time working, otherwise there will be disasters," she said. Aid will be decreasing as work resumes. The Ministry of Labor is preparing a new ordinance which will make it possible to individualize the requests for partial unemployment to better stick to this gradual resumption of work.