chômage technique
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être mis au chômage technique to be laid off
I think "made redundant" is less colloquial than "laid off" and basically means the same thing. "Le chômage technique" could therefore be "redundancy".
Do we really say "involuntary lay-offs"? I've heard of "compulsory redundancy"...?
As far as i know 'chômage technique' does not mean that you are laid off but that you are put on unpaid leave. I think the technical term is furlough.
Layoff is 'licenciement'
Layoff is 'licenciement'
I suspect this "chômage technique" to be a specificity of French Employment regulations. And therefore quite hard to translate.
This is actually a procedure that an employer can request to the district government body (DDTE) to apply for public subsidies to pay his/her employees while they cannot work due to technical/external circumstances, out of employer's control.
The employees stay under contract but can stay at their home while the failure is repaired.
(without deduction of any sick/annual leave days)
Could it be a word in English for this situation, I doubt it.
This is actually a procedure that an employer can request to the district government body (DDTE) to apply for public subsidies to pay his/her employees while they cannot work due to technical/external circumstances, out of employer's control.
The employees stay under contract but can stay at their home while the failure is repaired.
(without deduction of any sick/annual leave days)
Could it be a word in English for this situation, I doubt it.
to be on administrative leave (AE) - the employee is told not to come to work but is still paid. This sometimes happens because there is a hazard in the workplace and no one can enter, bad weather like a snowstorm that shuts down a city, or for an individual under investigation and is waiting for the outcome.
layoff/be laid off (AE) and redundancy/be made redundant (BE) are both official terms for the same idea, but used on different continents. Neither one is slang.
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ahh ! "Administrative leave" makes full sense here for "chômage technique" ! 
Thank you Wildan1.
Thank you Wildan1.
Absolutely.
Very good point silwilhith. Different countries have different laws, so terms are not always precisely translatable. Chômage technique is clearly not redundancy (where the job effectively disappears) but it seems to be a form of lay off (which under UK law is something quite different from redundancy). So I agree with hercules as far as BE is concerned.
Hi
In fact the official term is "chômage partiel" which may be - despite its name - "total", but for four weeks at the maximum. (it is often called "chômage technique" but it may be caused by other reasons than technical ones).
It is an alternative to redundancies, when difficulties are a temporary problem.
The dictionary gives 'short(-)time' for chômage partiel.
In fact the official term is "chômage partiel" which may be - despite its name
- "total", but for four weeks at the maximum. (it is often called "chômage technique" but it may be caused by other reasons than technical ones).It is an alternative to redundancies, when difficulties are a temporary problem.
The dictionary gives 'short(-)time' for chômage partiel.
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As a side note, using this expression "je suis au chômage technique" is not necessarily linked to the technical, legal aspect of one's work situation. It can be used colloquially whenever you find yourself with nothing to do, after having completed a task much faster than you had planned, or after having discovered that the task you were given actually involves doing nothing I'm not sure there's an English equivalent to this very loose expression.
I'm not sure there's an English equivalent to this very loose expression.Thank you Broglet, my pleasure.
I'm currently attending a course about "NZ commercial laws" and coming from "French Codes", I feel like landing on another planet
, with quite different approaches to same issues. For instance I start to think that translating "Lawer" (who knows the laws) into "Avocat" (who speaks in behalf of somebody) is not totally exact because the functions have not precisely the same purpose.
Similarly try to match a Chef de Projet Informatique with an IT Project Manager, I wish you good luck !
(And I apologise to moderators for this disgression while talking about chômage technique
feel free to wipe out this answer if irrelevant)You're perfectly rightAs a side note, using this expression "je suis au chômage technique" is not necessarily linked to the technical, legal aspect of one's work situation. It can be used colloquially whenever you find yourself with nothing to do, after having completed a task much faster than you had planned, or after having discovered that the task you were given actually involves doing nothing
, and we need more information from Sybille64 in order to know if it is really "chômage partiel" or a temporary lack of occupation.Bonjour,
Je voudrais traduire l'expression "chômage technique". Les employé travaille toujours dans l'entreprise mais les heures sont réduires à 14h/semaine par exemple. Cette réduction est du à une baisse des commandes.
J'ai vu que "layoffs" était possible mais je n'ai pas l'impression que ça correspond car ici les employés sont toujours au travail.
"structurally unemployed" me paraît aussi bizarre car il ne sont pas vraiment "unemployed". Est-ce que cette expression existe en anglais?
Merci d'avance.
Je voudrais traduire l'expression "chômage technique". Les employé travaille toujours dans l'entreprise mais les heures sont réduires à 14h/semaine par exemple. Cette réduction est du à une baisse des commandes.
J'ai vu que "layoffs" était possible mais je n'ai pas l'impression que ça correspond car ici les employés sont toujours au travail.
"structurally unemployed" me paraît aussi bizarre car il ne sont pas vraiment "unemployed". Est-ce que cette expression existe en anglais?
Merci d'avance.
Bonjour Gabrielle,
A sentence would be helpful but one of the following could be the answer you're looking for:
practically unemployed
for all sense and purposes unemployed
technically unemployed
Par exemple: My hours have been cut down to only 14 a week so for all sense and purposes I am unemployed!
Est-ce que tu as une phrase particulière que tu veux traduire ?
A sentence would be helpful but one of the following could be the answer you're looking for:
practically unemployed
for all sense and purposes unemployed
technically unemployed
Par exemple: My hours have been cut down to only 14 a week so for all sense and purposes I am unemployed!
Est-ce que tu as une phrase particulière que tu veux traduire ?
Non je n'ai pas de phrase car en fait je comptait mettre ça dans mon powerpoint de présentation de stage et donc "chômage technique" serait un point dans mon exposé.
Ah, je vois...alors dans un tel contexte je pencherais pour la proposition de jierbe 'technical unemployment'.
Bonne chance avec la présentation
Bonne chance avec la présentation
Merci pour vos conseil (et pour le site de GDT, je ne connaissait pas) !!
But they are still working, they're working 14 hours a week so, technically speaking, they are both unemployed and employed. It's not quite the same thing as administrative leave.
Partial layoffs or furloughs (maybe this is more in the public sector) are AE terms for " chômage technique partiel ".
Lots of government agencies here are imposing furloughs on their employees these days because of budget crises: Employees are furloughed every Friday, or must choose X number of days each month when they will not work (and not be paid) in order to balance the agency's budget.
No, that doesn't exist in English - we would say they are working "short-time" (veuillez pardonner les corrections!)
Voilà une explication précise de ce qu'est le "chômage partiel" :
http://www.travail-emploi-sante.gouv...tiel,1139.html
Selon le site du Pôle Emploi "chômage partiel" et "chômage technique" sont deux façons de dire la même chose.
http://www.pole-emploi.fr/employeur/...e.jspz?id=4076
Ceci ne peut pas se traduire par "redundancy" dont vous trouverez la définition ici : http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employme...cy/DG_10026616
"Structural unemployment" serait une autre façon incorrecte de traduire "chômage technique" :
http://www.qfinance.com/dictionary/s...l-unemployment
Finalement "layoff" a aussi un sens différent puisque ça implique un licenciement définitif SAUF s'il s'agit d'un "temporary layoff".
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...british/layoff
Conclusion: Le terme qui se rapproche le plus est donc "temporary layoff" comme vous pourrez le constater en lisant le site suivant :
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employme...ff/DG_10026693
Néanmoins il faudrait plus de recherche avant d'affirmer qu'il s'agit d'une correspondance exacte des termes, chose qui m'étonnerait un peu
http://www.travail-emploi-sante.gouv...tiel,1139.html
Selon le site du Pôle Emploi "chômage partiel" et "chômage technique" sont deux façons de dire la même chose.
http://www.pole-emploi.fr/employeur/...e.jspz?id=4076
Ceci ne peut pas se traduire par "redundancy" dont vous trouverez la définition ici : http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employme...cy/DG_10026616
"Structural unemployment" serait une autre façon incorrecte de traduire "chômage technique" :
http://www.qfinance.com/dictionary/s...l-unemployment
Finalement "layoff" a aussi un sens différent puisque ça implique un licenciement définitif SAUF s'il s'agit d'un "temporary layoff".
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...british/layoff
Conclusion: Le terme qui se rapproche le plus est donc "temporary layoff" comme vous pourrez le constater en lisant le site suivant :
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employme...ff/DG_10026693
Néanmoins il faudrait plus de recherche avant d'affirmer qu'il s'agit d'une correspondance exacte des termes, chose qui m'étonnerait un peu