Faced with a lingering health crisis, will the State continue to support jobs and sectors in difficulty?
Contrary to what the Minister of Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt suggested last week, the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne affirmed this Tuesday morning at the microphone of RTL that the policy of "
whatever it costs will last as long as necessary
”.
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"
As long as the crisis makes it necessary, we will protect jobs with partial activity
", "
as long as it takes, (...) as long as necessary
", insisted Élisabeth Borne.
“
The priority is to save as many jobs as possible
”.
"
There is no doubt, whatever the cost will last as long as necessary,
" she said, saying the Minister of Public Accounts "
optimistic on the way out of the crisis
".
Last week, the latter had declared in an interview with
Echoes
that the year 2021 should be marked by the end of the policy of "whatever the cost", that is to say the mobilization of all means necessary in the face of the Covid-19 crisis.
Élisabeth Borne called on sectors using seasonal contracts to hire, even if their activity is at a standstill, as is the case for ski lifts.
"
The State takes charge of 100% of the seasonal workers
'
remuneration
," she recalled, while stressing that "in the
spring, there were nearly nine million employees whose remuneration was taken into account. charge by the state, it saved jobs.
In November, three million
”.
Complete unemployment insurance
The Minister of Labor also reaffirmed her desire to complete the reform of unemployment insurance, the day after meetings with the social partners during which it was noted that its entry into force would be linked to the improvement of the market. employment.
"
I proposed to the social partners that the rules of the future system be adapted to the situation of the labor market
", she admitted, conceding that "
we must take into account the health crisis, the crisis economic that we are going through
”.
But "
the crisis we are going through does not erase the need to reform
", she qualified, considering that "
the current system is not satisfactory
".
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On the other hand, the pension reform, strongly contested by the unions and suspended because of the health crisis, "
is not the priority
", she reiterated.
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