In total the Ministry of labour had identified 2

Aun year apart, the situation on the employment front is all the same. While the numbers of job-seekers registered at pole late July employment are published today and should confirm the improvement recorded in June, the situation is also significantly more favourable towards the social plans. At the end of June, according to figures from the Ministry of labour, 668 safeguarding of employment (PSE) plans have been notified to the administration. This represents a 28.5 lower than the last half of 2009, where 934 social plans had been notified. In total, the Ministry of labour had identified 2.245 plans backup of employment (PSE) to the whole of the year 2009, is two times more than in 2008. In June this year, the number of social plans transmitted to the Government recorded a lowest since August 2008, with 87 cases. The dashboard of administration on the other hand gives no indication on the number of jobs globally concerned by these social plans.

If the trend is improving significantly, the number of plans should still remain higher than pre-crisis levels - in 2007, the number of social plans was established at 957. Since the beginning of the year, the economic environment is less dark and hiring prospects seem better. But it is not the only reasons for the decline in the number of social plans. "The high coverage of issues and interventions of public authorities have a little distorted the debate", ex-plique Emmanuelle RivezDommont, lawyer at the law firm Jones Day. For this specialist in social law, these cases on the front of the stage have felt so painful manner by some of his clients that they preferred to refrain from implementing a PES. "They chose to not risk any arm iron and rather privileged conventional breaks or the waves of small-scale departure", she continues. The number of conventional failures rises again and, indeed, recorded a peak in June, with 24.200 applications certified against 18,000 a year earlier.

Similarly, the fear of having to bear a financial cost much higher that expected, because the bidding negotiations of compensation or the attitude of certain courts (read here), have also played.

Social plans in preparation

Finally, the overall improvement mask disparities depending on the size of the business. If the big more often already adjusted their workforce, the re-entry risk be placed under the sign of the gloom for many SMEs. With the key new threats to employment, then the situation will be new knocks.

Positions at Teleperformance deletions have been the one in recent weeks. Already, other signals are detectable. Thus recurrent rumours concerning Oracle France, French subsidiary of the US computer group Oracle-Sun. That the Inter-Union a plan for the removal of 200 to 300 positions would be in the study. Another example is that of the Altis company - specializing in semiconductors. Acquired in August by Yazid Sabeg, also Commissioner for diversity and equality, the company has to endorse the principle of a social plan providing for remove 400 positions on 1,300. All examples that show that the footprint of the crisis has not yet been cleared.