The long-term partial activity device at 84% of net salary will be maintained "until next summer," Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne told BFM Business on Thursday.
"I can confirm to you that we will maintain the level of support, therefore an out-of-pocket charge limited to 15% for the employer, without limit until the deadline set for negotiating these long-term partial activity agreements , until next summer, "she said.
The long-term partial activity device at 84% of net salary will be maintained "until next summer," Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne told BFM Business on Thursday.
"I can confirm to you that we will maintain the level of support, therefore an out-of-pocket charge limited to 15% for the employer, without limit until the deadline set for negotiating these long-term partial activity agreements , until next summer, "she said.
The ministry has recorded "since March 345 job rescue plans (PSE) which compare to 231 over the same period of 2019, that represents a lot of jobs, 50,000 jobs", said the minister, in a context of health crisis.
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More advantageous than traditional partial unemployment
"The responsibility of my ministry is to ensure that there is quality social dialogue and then to offer companies all the mechanisms that have been put in place, in particular the long-term partial activity", she continued.
This device "both recent and innovative, the texts of which came out in July, allows by a company agreement to reduce if necessary the activity and then to take advantage of this time not worked to train, so that the company keeps jobs, skills and even strengthens its skills so that they are stronger after the crisis ", highlighted Elisabeth Borne.
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It is more advantageous than classic partial unemployment, limited to six months and whose compensation will increase, from October 1, from 84 to 72% of the net for the employee, and from 85 to 60% of the cost for companies.