As of March 29, the situation tended to improve in the labor market compared to previous months, just a year after the start of the first confinement, according to data released this Thursday by Dares.
The tightening of measures announced on Wednesday to curb the spread of the virus could be a game-changer.
● 2.1 million employees on short-time work in February
This is a slight improvement, recorded in February, on the number of employees actually placed on short-time work: 2.1 million (or 11% of the workforce in the private sector), against 2.3 million in January, 3 million in November and a peak at 8.5 million in April 2020. The number of non-working hours then reached 164 million.
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The three sectors that put the most employees on short-time work were accommodation and catering (698,000 employees), commerce (291,000) and business services (282,000).
In February, the cost of short-time work was 1.7 billion euros.
● 35 social plans at the start of March
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