The Department of Labor has calculated that 235,000 five-day-a-week jobs could be created if short-contract standards were met.
These short contracts, of less than 31 days, are nevertheless well regulated by law: they are authorized to meet specific needs and in no case to permanently fill a job related to the normal and permanent activity of the company. However, the Direction of the animation of research, studies and statistics (Dares), by attacking the nominative social declarations provided by the employers, realized that there were abuses. Some companies use employees on short contracts in the same profession almost every week of the year.
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The DARES lists nearly 40,000 companies which, alone, generated 71% of short contracts in the private sector. In these companies, short contracts represent almost 20% of the volume of employment, ie one in five workers is on a short contract in these establishments. This is primarily private social action, for example nursing homes, secondly industry, followed by accommodation and catering, trade, transport and warehousing and construction. . So many short contracts that could be transformed into stable jobs. According to Dares, approximately nine million short contracts could be transformed into stable contracts, CDD or CDI, which would represent 235,000 sustainable jobs of five days a week. More than a quarter, 27%, of short contracts signed in the private sector could thus be transformed into stable contracts. In the sectors concerned, the figures are impressive.
In industry alone, if companies that are major users of short-term contracts decided to transform these contracts into long-term contracts, 43,000 five-day-a-week jobs would be created, 36,000 in private social action, 13,000 in catering accommodation. Stable contracts which would mainly concern unskilled workers in handling, industry, and maintenance workers and nursing assistants.