Coronavirus: Chanel maintains the salary of his employees throughout the containment period
The French fashion house Chanel announced that it renounced putting its employees to partial unemployment and maintaining their remuneration.
It is a rare and very applauded initiative.While the whole of France is shaken by the Coronavirus epidemic and that the country's economy suffers from confinement, Chanel has announced that none of its employees would find themselves without salary.Indeed, the double C brand published in a press release that 100 % of the wages of its 8,500 employees in France would be maintained "for 40 working days, for a period of 8 weeks, from March 16 to May 8".A commendable decision that echoes that taken on March 19 to: “Gradually close, for two weeks, all its production sites in France, Italy and Switzerland as well as its haute couture and ready-to-wear workshops, crafts and jewelry ”in order to cope with the rise of coronavirus cases in Europe.
"This decision is responsible for our responsible solidarity plan.Because the French state will have other priorities.He will have to come to the aid of businesses in difficulty, "said the world Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel Sas.Thanks to this decision, the brand hopes "not to weigh on public accounts, so that the French state can come to the aid of more vulnerable businesses" as a priority ".The temple of Parisian chic also wants all financial and material efforts to be focused on the health system as well as the nursing staff.
A very generous gift of equipment
Like many fashion and beauty brands like Kering or LVMH, Chanel SAS, whose sales reached 9.91 billion euros in 2018, wanted to bring its stone to the building.The group thus donated 1.2 million euros to the emergency fund created by the AP-HP Foundation.150 seamstresses and seamstresses of the haute couture, ready-to-wear and art houses were also mobilized to create thousands of masks and blouses.As a reminder, the house had already made a donation of 50,000 masks.
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