"We could quickly go from short-time working to short-time working." Jacques Chanut, the president of the French Building Federation is not happy. And he makes it known. Main object of his bad mood: the will of the government to partially limit the reimbursement of partial unemployment for the sector from June 1 in order to push for a resumption of activity. "No company manager voluntarily puts their workers on partial unemployment, because you don't make a living like that," protested the boss of the FFB. It is the customer who decides, and today we are lacking. ”
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This is a new episode in the odyssey of taking over construction sites in the construction industry. The government wanted a rapid recovery of the sector, from the week of containment on March 16, to show that the economy did not stop. It will have taken several weeks, but the recovery is starting to be there. "We have gone from 70% of public works companies shutdown on April 10 to only 17% today"
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