The partial unemployment support system will be gradually reduced, announced the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, on Monday, believing that the state did not intend to continue to pay "the full wages" of the sector. private.
"Today, there are 12.2 million employees who are covered by partial unemployment", or "six jobs out of ten in the private sector", said Muriel Pénicaud on LCI, ensuring that this device had helped avoid a wave of mass layoffs.
An amount "modest at first but progressive"
But “today, the conditions for recovery are there. So there is not so much reason that it is the State that continues to pay the full wages of 12 million employees in France, "continued the minister on LCI. "This is why we are going to define I think in the week what part of the salary the company will pay," she said, indicating that this amount was "not yet decided". "It will be modest at first but progressive," she nevertheless promised.
Employees of the private sector who are partially laid off by their company currently benefit from a guarantee of 84% of net wages (100% at the minimum wage), which the State and unemployment insurance reimburse fully to employers up to a limit of 4 , 5 Smic. Due to the deconfinement, the government has however provided that companies will contribute in "reasonable proportions" to the wages of employees kept on short-time working after June 1 - the objective being to encourage the resumption of activity.
The question of working time
Partial unemployment will nonetheless remain covered "at full rate" in certain sectors such as hotels and restaurants, which are not allowed to resume their activity. Asked by the weekly company Entreprise et Carrières about the need to increase working time as recommended by the Montaigne Institute, the Minister reiterated that "labor law already includes enough provisions such as the annualisation of working time. work or the use of overtime ”.
"I will be happy the day that the question of working hours really arises ... In a crisis, we must focus on the priority subjects", she added. The possibility opened by an ordinance of March 25 to derogate from working hours (from 48 to 60 hours per week, in particular) has not been translated by a decree, for lack of having needed it “for the moment” in one sector in particular, the minister had explained to MPs on April 22. These derogations can go until December 31, depending on the text of the ordinance which provides for them.
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