More than 10 million private sector employees working for 820,000 French companies now benefit from the partial unemployment scheme put in place as part of measures to support the French economy in the context of the crisis linked to the epidemic of new coronavirus. , announced Wednesday April 22 the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud.

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"This morning in France, there are 10,200,000 private sector employees (...) who are partially unemployed," said Muriel Pénicaud on BFM Business.

"It is considerable"

"It is more than one employee in two and it is six companies out of ten (...) because it is more than 820,000 companies" who use this device, she added. "It is considerable," said the minister.

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