Businesses are concerned about new health regulations, which could slow economic recovery. The employers warns that if it stretches, hundreds of thousands more unemployed to join the job market. 

It will take two years for the French economy to return to its level before the Covid crisis. On condition, warns the employers, that work will resume quickly.

Yes, and what worries companies is the new health rules. Because the French bureaucracy being what it is, we find ourselves today, according to the president of the Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux, with "texts three or four times thicker" than in the other countries. No less than 60 health protocols have been implemented. These are mines of litigation.

Likewise, the new rules of four square meters per person are a nightmare: no one knows how they can be respected. In companies and beyond: university presidents, for example, do not know how they will manage to welcome everyone at the start of the school year. 

The risk is that the return to normal will drag on. 

What employers demand is that there be as clear an injunction to return to work as there was a very clear one in early March to stay at home. The challenge is the famous recovery in V: this year, growth plunges, -10 or -11%. Next year, it should go up: + 6.9% according to the Banque de France.

We're going to go back more slowly than we dived. But the less rapid the recovery, the less we will be able to erase the social consequences of this incredible economic shock. If, instead of a V-shaped recovery, we have a stretching recovery, this will translate into hundreds of thousands more unemployed.