Contractual terminations resumed with renewed vigor in 2021 after a serious break in 2020. Created in 2008, this system allows the termination of an indefinite contract by common agreement between the parties. And his growing success has never wavered.

454,000 conventional completions last year

Although their number logically fell in 2020, in the midst of a health crisis (-3.6%), it has increased again to a large extent in 2021 (+6.1%). 454,000 individual conventional breaks have been approved in the private sector, says a Dares study.

Given the slowdown in 2020, the 2021 figure is logically higher than that of 2019 (444,000 conventional completions) but the relatively weak evolution between 2019 and 2021 (+2.3%) “confirms the slowdown observed in the years before the pandemic ” underlines the dares

Construction, transportation, real estate

In detail, the increase in breaks affects almost all sectors of activity. It is particularly high in construction (+16%), transportation (+13.8%) and real estate (+13.6%). On the other hand, information-communication activities (-4.5%) and financial and insurance activities (-0.4%) fell.

Geographically, it is in Normandy (+12.6%), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (+10.6%) and Pays de la Loire (+9.3%) where the increases are most marked. Finally, those between 30 and 39 years of age are the ones who have made the most contractual leave (33% of the total) ahead of those under 30 years of age (27%).

Note that, among executives, “their number continues to increase but at a slower pace (+1.6% in 2021 after +2.3% in 2020 and +10.0% in 2019),” underlines Dares. .