Skills sponsorship, a collateral victim of Covid-19

2021-03-29T16:08:22.792Z

Employees in partial employment cannot donate their time to associations. The list of collateral damage from Covid-19 continues to grow. While skills-based sponsorship was booming, the pandemic halted this dynamic. Many companies engaged with organizations of general interest, associations or NGOs have had, with the crisis, to resort to partial unemployment. Consequently, their employees who dedicated certain moments of their working time to these structures can no long

The list of collateral damage from Covid-19 continues to grow.

While skills-based sponsorship was booming, the pandemic halted this dynamic.

Many companies engaged with organizations of general interest, associations or NGOs have had, with the crisis, to resort to partial unemployment.

Consequently, their employees who dedicated certain moments of their working time to these structures can no longer do so.

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Indeed, the non-working hours of employees in partial activity are not considered as paid, but as compensated.

If companies maintained this labor loan on the compensated free time of their employees, the hours offered would be considered as worked, and the partial activity allowance from which they benefited would be withdrawn.