The number of job protection plans (PSE) has reached 394 since March, against 249 over the same period last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Labor released Thursday.
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As part of these PES initiated from March 1 to September 13, nearly 57,000 termination of employment contracts are envisaged in total, according to Dares, the statistics service of the ministry.
This is about three times more than over the same period in 2019, a ratio already observed in August.
After falling in August, the weekly number of PES started to rise again at the beginning of September: from 10 during the last week of August, it rose to 19 during the first week of September, then to 30 during the last week of August. next.
In addition, nearly 3,200 collective redundancies for economic reasons, excluding PES, have been initiated since the beginning of March.
In more than nine out of ten cases, these procedures concern redundancies of less than ten employees.
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The number of restructuring procedures remained low for a long time due to the massive partial unemployment deployed since the start of the health crisis.
In July, 2.4 million employees would have actually been affected by partial unemployment (i.e. a little less than 15% of private sector employees), after 4.5 million in June, 7.9 million in May, 8.8 in April and 7.2 in March.
The resumption of online job offers is confirmed: the number of jobs published from September 7 to 13 is 132% of the pre-containment level.