The number of job protection plans (PSE) continues to increase, with 657 PES initiated since March, against 369 over the same period last year, according to data released Thursday by the statistics service of the Ministry of Labor ( Dares).
In total, 67,065 terminations of employment contracts are envisaged within the framework of PSE, i.e. significantly more than double compared to 2019 (26,987 between March 1 and November 22, 2019), indicates the Dares.
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In four out of ten cases, these breaks concern companies with 1,000 or more employees and in nearly three out of ten companies with fewer than 250 employees.
However, the weekly number of initiated PES fell in mid-November: close to 30 at the end of October and early November, it fell to around 20 during the weeks of 9 and 16 November.
The planned termination of employment contracts also fell over the period.
Partial unemployment down
Since the start of March 2020, 4,900 collective redundancy procedures for economic reasons, excluding PSE, have also been notified.
In nine cases out of ten, they concern redundancies of less than 10 employees.
For partial unemployment, which in October concerned 1.6 million employees, the Dares reports a "
clear
" acceleration of requests between October 26 - the week of the announcement of the reconfinement - and November 22, with 385,300 requests prior authorization.
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From around 3,000 per day on average during the two weeks preceding the announcement of the reconfinement, the number of requests has risen to nearly 15,000 on average since.