Employment & Labor

#2020-346Emergency Measures for Partial Activity in Response to COVID-19

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🇬🇧 English

This law provides guidelines for partial employment and compensation adjustments during the COVID-19 pandemic. It affects private-sector employees, state-controlled enterprises, and specific groups like apprentices and protected workers. Employers are required to adjust compensation due to reduced hours and can claim partial activity allowances. Special provisions allow home-based employees to receive compensation without requiring prior administrative approval.

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Key Changes

  • Partial employment compensation guidelines during COVID-19
  • Home-based employees can receive compensation without prior approval
  • Employers can claim partial activity allowances

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Employers must account for equivalence hours in calculating partial activity indemnities and allowances for employees whose working time is measured under the equivalence regime (Article L. 3121-13 of the French Labor Code)

All employers with employees on equivalence-based working time arrangements
operational
high

State-controlled enterprises and their private-sector employees must place affected employees in partial activity status and claim partial activity allowances according to specified procedures

State-controlled enterprises listed in Article L. 5424-1(3°) of the French Labor Code
operational
high

Employers must ensure partial activity indemnity rates for employees under Article L. 3123-1 are not below the minimum hourly wage (SMIC), except when an employee's contractual rate is below SMIC, in which case the indemnity equals their actual rate

All employers with part-time employees (Article L. 3123-1)
operational
high

Employers of apprentices and employees in professionalization contracts must pay partial activity indemnities equal to the applicable percentage of the minimum wage (SMIC) under French Labor Code provisions

All employers of apprentices and professionalization contract employees
operational
medium

Employers may place protected employees (union representatives, etc.) in partial activity without prior written consent when it affects all employees in the affected unit, establishment, service, or workshop

All employers with protected employees
operational

Affected Parties

Private sector employeesState-controlled enterprise employees

Tags

COVID-19,partial employment,compensation

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