The Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, said on April 29 on France Inter that 11.3 million French people are currently on partial unemployment due to the drop in activity linked to the coronavirus pandemic and confinement. 

There will be "no cleaver on June 1" for the partial activity system but "the state support rate will be a little less important" beyond this date, she said. precise. The system already concerns 890,000 companies. More than one employee in two in the private sector is affected.

The minister also assured that parents who must keep their children because of the gradual re-entry into schools will continue to be compensated.

Since March 15, these parents have received daily benefits through sick leave. On May 1, they will switch to a system of partial unemployment.

So far, the ministry has anticipated that compensation will continue until the May 11 resumption.

"The system will remain as it is throughout May," said the minister. "From June 1, a certificate from the school will be required," she added.

Asked about unemployment insurance, Muriel Pénicaud confined himself to repeating that "we had to look if there were rules to adapt". All the unions are asking the executive to abandon a reform deemed very severe and part of which already entered into force last November.

For his part, the Minister of Public Accounts, Gérald Darmanin, said Wednesday that some 361,000 employees working at the homes of individuals benefited in March from the specific partial unemployment scheme.

"There are 361,000 employees who benefit from this partial unemployment which did not exist before the crisis. We created it from scratch at the request of the President of the Republic and it will continue" until June 1 as for other employees, he said on RTL.

With AFP

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