With the improvement of the situation on the health front last month, activity has resumed.
About 1.3 million private sector employees were on short-time work in June, or 7% of private sector employees, the lowest since September 2020, according to an estimate released Thursday by Dares.
This represents a drop of 42% compared to the previous month (2.3 million employees concerned in May), according to this monthly survey.
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At the height of the crisis in spring 2020, nearly 9 million employees were affected by short-time work. The decline in June affected all sectors and in particular commerce (-67%) or accommodation and catering (-40%), indicates the Dares, the main cause of short-time working remaining the unavailability of employees considered as fragile / vulnerable or in a childcare situation.
Asked in
Les Échos
on a possible extension of aid, in particular on short-time working in the face of the very contagious variant Delta, the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne recalls that “
for sectors where the loss of activity is greater than 80%, it is absolutely planned way to maintain 100% coverage
”.
It also stresses that "
the long-term partial activity (APLD) continues to develop, with 17,000 agreements and more than a million employees concerned
", ensuring that the government is "
listening
" to professionals and update with the branches and the social partners “
very regularly
”.
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The Dares survey also shows that teleworking continued to decline in June: 24% of employees teleworked at least one day, two points less than in May. In addition, the number of days teleworked in the week has also fallen sharply: only 18% of employees concerned by teleworking have teleworked every day of the week (i.e. 4% of all employees, after 8 % in May).
