If further proof was needed to demonstrate that the two confinements of 2020 and the health situation as a whole weighed heavily on employment, it is there ... According to figures from the Central Agency of Social Security organizations ( Acoss), the national Urssaf fund, the number of declarations of hiring (excluding temporary workers) for more than a month fell by 23.8% at the end of December over one year.
A plunge, which had never been recorded, driven both by the drop in recruitment increases in fixed-term contracts of more than one month (-25.7%) but also in open-ended contracts which are contracting, over the whole of the year, by 21.9%.
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The only satisfaction is that hiring declarations have increased despite the construction crisis, with an increase of 2%.
But the tertiary sectors (-19.1%) and industry (-11.8%) are indeed at half mast.
Faced with a climate of uncertainty, companies put the brakes on their recruitment plans last year.
And the 4th quarter broke the good momentum encountered during the summer.
The last three months of the year, marked by a curfew and general confinement, show a drop in hiring declarations of around 14%.
With in detail, a decline of 14.3% of hiring in CDD of more than one month and of 13.6% of CDI.
A disappointment in the face of + 74.7% and + 70.1% recorded between July and September, just after the collapse of the first containment, which gave hope for a rapid rebound.
As usual, the brake is greater in very small businesses (-21.8%) than in companies with 20 or more employees (-7.9%).
And since bad news never comes alone, Pôle emploi unveils this Thursday the figures for job seekers for the month of December, the 4th quarter and therefore the whole of 2020. And here too, there is no optimism. is not appropriate ...