Approximately 8.6 million workers would actually have been placed on partial unemployment in April on licensing applications made for $ 11.8 million.

All the requests have not yet been filed. And already approximately 8.6 million employees have been placed on partial unemployment in April on requests for authorization made to 11.8 million, according to estimates by the ministry of Labour published on Wednesday.

This would be 832 million working hours (97 hours, or 2.8 weeks at 35 hours, per employee, on average), according to the study of the Dares, the service statistics of the ministry.

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To use the activity part, businesses must first file a request for prior authorisation from the administration. They are usually applications is very wide but does not use any. Only to the claims then seeking reimbursement of salaries used to determine the number of employees actually placed in the activity partial.

At 18 may, the claims actually reported for April are now 4.5 million workers, but all the requests have not yet been filed, the companies with a one-year period. In order to estimate the number of workers actually placed in the activity part, the Dares had recourse to two sources of further information : a survey, “to estimate the non-effective remedy to the activity of partial to companies that had yet filed an application for authorization” ; “on the other hand, a specific consultation survey of 1000 filers who have not yet made a claim for April”.

The accumulated requests for authorization of partial unemployment since the 1st of march for the 12.7 million workers in the 18 may with a slight increase in recent weeks.

downsizing

The study of the Dares also shows that staff reductions “have remained limited in April”. “Companies have reduced their workforces, represent 13% of all employees at the end of April (after 11% at the end of march),” according to the Dares.

These reductions will pass mainly through non-renewal of xed-term contracts and the cancellation or postponement of anticipated, “the dismissal remains marginal despite a slight increase”.

From 1 march to 17 may, only 53 backup plans of employment (for 2.853 deletions of posts) have been initiated against 111 last year (to 8.194 job cuts) at the same time.

in addition, 832 “small collective redundancies” (less than ten employees) have been undertaken.

Then in march, 19% of employees were in a company whose activity had stopped, “they are no more than 12% in April”, according to the Dares, who noted “an improvement particularly marked in the construction” (16% to stop after 53% in march).

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the causes of the fall of activity in April are, above all, the loss of markets (45%) or closures, administrative (30%), far ahead of the lack of staff able to work (14%), and difficulties of supply (11%).