“Be exemplary. If you use short-time working, don't pay dividends. ” Bruno Le Maire could not be more clear, Monday, during his intervention on BFMTV. The Minister of the Economy, who called on Friday for an end to dividends, had little taste of the press release sent Sunday evening by Afep, the association of the 110 largest French private companies.
If it asks “of course” to its members using the deferral of payment of social or tax charges and to those having obtained bank loans guaranteed by the state “to apply the decision of the government to prohibit paying dividends in 2020 " , The Afep refuses the same instruction for those benefiting from partial unemployment.
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Recalling that "certain member companies do not ask for partial unemployment because their situation allows them to keep their employees at their post or in telework" , Afep offers an alternative: on the one hand, it asks its members using partial unemployment of
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