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Many companies are suffering from the absence of their staff, sick with Covid-19. They are therefore turning to temping companies, which are sinking in demand.
In a logistics company located near Dax (Landes), the permanent employees are dressed in blue, and the temporary workers, very numerous for a week, wear a yellow jacket. Among them, Axel Jandreau, 21 years old. “With the crisis, it is true that in the interim we have many more proposals. Many more contracts, and especially long term “, confides the latter. Without temporary workers, it is difficult to run the business. Very many employees, affected by Covid-19 or having to look after a sick child, are in fact absent.
“We usually have 90 people who work on logistics, there, almost 50% of our workforce is temporary“, details the CEO of Zoomalia, Pierre-Adrien Thollet, who indicates that”all the businesses in the area are in the same situation“. Since the arrival of the Omicron variant in November, sick leave has increased sevenfold in France. The main sectors affected are medical, logistics and construction. In Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), Céline Foulon, director of the Solcis Interim agency, is overwhelmed with cases, and sometimes struggles to honor requests.