Avoid mass layoffs. Three weeks after the launch of a concertation to "save jobs", Emmanuel Macron receives the social partners again on Wednesday to unveil their first arbitrations, in particular on the new long-term partial unemployment scheme, which must complement measures that we know today from July 1.
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A salary cut partially compensated by the State
While Unédic anticipates the destruction of 900,000 jobs in 2020, this new device must therefore allow sectors very affected by the coronavirus crisis, such as aeronautics or the automobile, to keep the skills of their driving forces while waiting to complete the order book.
To do this, long-term partial unemployment has a simple principle: if a company experiences a drop in activity, it can negotiate with its employees a reduction in working time up to 40%, according to union sources, and the drop wages will be compensated 84% of the net by the state. In exchange, the company undertakes to maintain jobs with a 15% charge. Limited to two years, the system must be subject to a majority collective agreement, in the company or branch.
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A more advantageous device than traditional partial unemployment
This system will be more advantageous than the classic partial unemployment scheme, which from October 1 will only compensate employees up to 72% of net salary with a 40% remaining charge for companies. According to Dares, the directorate of statistics of the Ministry of Labor, 7.8 million workers were on short-time working in May, even if so far only 4.6 million claims have been filed.
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Guidelines should also be raised on other themes during this meeting, such as unemployment insurance, youth employment, posted work or vocational training.