Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, President of Medef.

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ERIC PIERMONT / AFP

Employers' organizations warned this Friday against the economic consequences of the reconfinement of 16 departments, including those of Ile-de-France, for four weeks from Saturday.

"This re-containment does not draw lessons from previous ones, and will obviously have consequences on companies and on the morale of entrepreneurs and employees in the regions concerned", reacted Medef.

The regions concerned "represent millions of jobs and account for 40% of French GDP," he points out.

The Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME) considers for its part "particularly regrettable that traders already more than weakened by the year they have just lived find themselves, de facto, singled out", according to a press release.

New support measures requested

The CPME calls for the establishment of new support measures such as compensation for "depreciation of stocks" and "real payment of rents", already provided for in the framework of the coverage of fixed costs but only for companies. realizing, except in a few special cases, more than one million euros of turnover.

Otherwise, CPME fears "that certain sectors such as independent clothing, for example, will purely and simply disappear".

For Medef, “to close shops when we know that they are not places of contamination and fall back into the absurdity of what is essential and what is not essential, is not to learn anything from it. 'one year of restrictions'.

"The urgency for us is really to speed up the vaccination" and "it must be done seven days a week", underlines the organization.

"We touch physical commerce, but we do not touch the internet, so once again we will favor e-commerce players", regretted for his part the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Paris Ile -from France Didier Kling.

"I would have preferred that we limit travel over time but that we renounce these categories of commerce which are absurd," added Didier Kling, while the new limit in confined regions will be only geographic, with travel restricted to 10 km around the place of residence.

"If we are inspired by what has been set up in Nice or Dunkirk, that means that I can have my bike, my computer repaired, but not my shoes, while I am encouraged to walk", notes he still.

Politics

Medef wants to open a dialogue with the unions to "rethink the role of the social partners"

Economy

In the event of re-containment, businesses must "remain open", argue the CCI and the Medef

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