Good news on the employment front. The Labor Department announced Wednesday morning in the Echoes of figures on backup plans for employment (PSE) fell sharply from the end of 2009. In the first half of 2010, 668 PES have been reported to the administration against 934 in the second half of 2009, a decrease of 28.5% over this period. Moreover, the month of June 2010 recorded 87 such redundancy schemes, a level at its lowest since August 2008. The Ministry of Labour, however, did not release the total number of jobs destroyed by these schemes.

This news comes in support of other labor market indicators published recently. Two weeks ago, INSEE reported on the creation of 60,000 salaried positions in six months, one year after 2009 generally very destructive.The use of frames also rebounded since last January found the Association for the executive employment (APEC). In July, the job offers published by the association executives and 53% progressed, mainly in IT and business functions.

2009 catastrophic

However, the decrease in the number of PES remains in place relative to the extent that the figures for 2009 had been devastating: 2,245 plans had been identified during this year particularly affected by the crisis, nearly 2.5 times than in 2007. With already 668 PES 2010 is also unlikely that the number PSE set up in 2010 found its level before the crisis (957 PES 2007).

The explosion, finally, the number of broken treaty in June might suggest that some companies use them in lieu of some PES, although this practice is prohibited by law. In order not to attract the attention of governments and not having to pay compensation in the amount tends to grow under pressure, companies could use this mechanism put in place two years ago, or even layoffs in smaller numbers.

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