And if the worst had been avoided… More than a year after the start of the crisis, the disaster so dreaded on the employment front has not yet taken place.
With an increase in the number of job seekers of nearly 8% over twelve months and the destruction of more than 300,000 salaried jobs in 2020, there is of course nothing to be proud of.
But at the start of the pandemic, all forecasts agreed on a much heavier damage.
It is therefore clear that the darkest forecasts have been thwarted.
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The situation owes nothing to chance and is largely explained by the cloaking of the French economic and social fabric.
The famous
"whatever the cost"
of the President of the Republic.
From March, the Ministry of Labor encouraged companies in France to turn to partial activity, by subsidizing the device to reduce the share of wages remaining payable by companies.
At the height of the crisis, in April 2020, up to 8.4 million
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