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There will be no reduction in compensation for short-time working for employees, nor a reduction in its coverage for companies on July 1. So decided the government on Monday, as French companies are struggling to recover from a major economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus. But will they be helped by the State beyond the summer? On Europe 1, Tuesday evening, the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud opened the door to an extension of the "partial unemployment system" until the end of 2021.
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"I hope we don't need it"
"We do not exclude" this extension of the device which has already helped several million employees, says Muriel Pénicaud. "I hope we will not need it," she nevertheless wants to believe, while the compensation of employees today corresponds to 70% of gross salary.
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This could be the case for several sectors whose prospects are not immediately flourishing, such as "the automobile, aeronautics or tourism". In these sectors, "partial long-term activity would allow in a company or a branch where we really have prospects for development, but in the long term or in the medium term", to help the treasury "for six months, twelve months, 24 months if necessary ".