Chic Parisien sent 580 workers to partial unemployment insurance until March 31 | the daily

Chic Parisien Sociedad Anónima, “the largest fashion company in Uruguay”, as defined on its website, sent 580 workers to partial unemployment insurance. The measure begins this Monday and will run until March 31. The majority of the company’s workforce, which sells the brands Parisien, Indian Emporium, La Casa de las Telas, Íntima and Máximo, is made up of women. “We come from a seven-month unemployment insurance. We reintegrated two months, and now back to unemployment insurance ”, he informed the daily Carolina Reyes, delegate of the company union, a subsidiary of the Uruguayan Federation of Trade and Services Employees.

According to Reyes, when the health emergency was declared in March, Chic Parisien not only sent staff to unemployment insurance, but there were also 160 dismissals. This time, the information that the company gave the workers is that “in the context of a pandemic and economic crisis”, they use the partial unemployment insurance and go to work “three days yes and three days go to stay within unemployment insurance ”, explained Reyes. “It is a reduction in the working day. There are no layoffs, “added the union delegate.

Reyes said that the loss of clientele is noticeable in the premises, but assured that the company has already carried out “a restructuring” and that “it has been working with very few personnel.” Chic Parisien, which belongs to the businessmen Nathalie Manhard and Gustavo Ferber, has about 40 stores, located mainly in shopping malls, in downtown Montevideo and in inland cities. Reyes said that although “there is dialogue” with the company, “there is no negotiation”, and this situation generates in the workers “a lot of uncertainty”.

Partial unemployment insurance is a special subsidy scheme created by the Executive Branch, through the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, to mitigate the effects of the health emergency caused by covid-19. Workers dependent on private activity who “have a reduction of at least six full days of work and a maximum of 19 in the month or a reduction of the working day of at least 50% of the usual schedule” are entitled to this subsidy. as reported by the Social Security Bank. This regime was extended during the health emergency and is currently valid until March 31.

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