Urssaf announced Thursday in a press release that the number of hires for more than a month increased further in the third quarter to reach 2.2%, a historic peak.
The number of declarations of hiring for more than a month (excluding temporary workers) continued to increase by 2.2% in the third quarter, after an increase of 3.4% in the previous quarter, the Urssaf indicated on Thursday in a communicated. The quarterly level thus reached “a new historic peak, at 2.6 million, or 18% more than in the fourth quarter of 2019 just before the crisis“Linked to Covid-19, according to data from Urssaf Caisse Nationale (formerly Acoss). Over one year, declarations of hiring for more than one month increased by 6.3%.
By type of contract, the increase in the third quarter was notably driven by hirings on fixed-term contracts of more than one month (+3.4% after +1.5%), those on permanent contracts recording a more measured increase (+1% after +5.2% in the previous quarter). Declarations of hiring for more than a month increased regardless of the size of the company: +2% (after +4.7%) in those with fewer than 20 employees and +2.3% (after +2 .5%) in larger ones.
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By sector, they rose sharply in the third quarter in industry (+5.1% after +1.2%), and more moderately in construction (+2.8%, after -0.4%) and the tertiary sector (+1.9%, after +3.3%), specifies Urssaf. Compared to before the health crisis and to the last quarter of 2019, they show a sharp increase in industry (+20.5%) and in the tertiary sector (+18.4%) and increased by 3% in the construction sector. construction, less impacted during the crisis.