The Interministerial Committee for Industrial Restructuring (Ciri) helped in 2022 to restructure 31 companies in difficulty, thus returning to their pre-Covid-19 levels, the organization said on Monday, stressing however that French industry had been particularly exposed to the energy price inflation.
Created in 1982, this committee can support companies with more than 400 employees to help them transform, with the aim of continuing the activity while preserving “the maximum number of jobs”.
These volumes are “close to the level observed before the Covid period” -32 companies served in 2019, representing 59,884 employees-, “thus materializing a return to normality in the committee’s activity”, it is specified, while there had been 70 new referrals. in 2020 (representing more than 96,000 jobs).
The 31 new references in 2022 “echo the resistance to inflation and the war in Ukraine of the French economic fabric,” said Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, quoted in the press release.
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However, the year 2022 has meant a “significant” return in applications for aid from companies belonging to the industrial sector, which account for 69% of new referrals.
“This is explained in particular by its high exposure to the increase in the cost of energy and raw materials observed from the 1st half of 2022”, as well as by the “component crisis” that affected the automotive, electronics and aeronautical industries. . subcontractors, decipher the Ciri.
On the contrary, the number of tourism, events and transport companies -sectors directly affected by the pandemic- that have requested the organization in 2022 “logically has been greatly reduced compared to the previous two years”.
In detail, of the 31 files processed in 2022, 23 had “favorable results” (for 35,529 jobs), 7 are still pending and one ended in failure.
Source: BFM TV
