Shops specializing in clothing, travel articles or sporting goods closed in November due to confinement will receive additional aid to take into account the difficulties in selling their stocks, according to a decree published on Sunday in the Official Journal.
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This aid is intended for companies which had already benefited from aid under the solidarity fund in November and amounts to 80% of the amount they had received that month.
It concerns stores specializing in "
clothing, footwear, leather goods and travel articles or sporting goods or on stalls and markets in textiles, clothing and footwear
", specifies the decree.
Consultation on an opening on Sunday
Due to the restrictions put in place last fall to stem the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, many businesses were unable to sell their stocks of goods which are now difficult to sell.
A weight all the heavier than their cash flow was largely damaged by the health crisis.
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While the businesses closed during the third wave are to reopen on Wednesday, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire also deemed “
legitimate
” their request to be able to open on Sunday in order to support them.
These openings will be the subject of consultations which will "take
place locally, led by the prefects, with elected officials, employers' organizations and unions to allow exceptional exemptions
", according to the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne.