In addition to the health crisis, the signals are always more worrying on the economic front. In France, under the effect of the coronavirus, 453,800 jobs were destroyed in the first quarter in the private sector, a drop of 2.3% in the number of jobs compared to the previous quarter, according to a provisional estimate from INSEE .
The estimate of the loss of economic activity “remains on the order of a third” compared to normal. “A slight upturn in economic activity seems to be confirmed, in industry and in construction”: this is the only small positive note noted by the National Institute of Statistics.
“Today, what we sense is hundreds of thousands more unemployed” after confinement, but “what we are talking about is not to work more individually, it is to work all , to have jobs for all “, alarmed the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, on Europe 1.
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