The Ministry of Labor published the document enjoining employers to set “as of January 3 and for a period of three weeks, a minimum of three days of teleworking per week, for the positions that allow it”.
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“Three days of minimum teleworking per week for positions that allow it, four if possible, and for three weeks at least as of January 3rd.” Posted Thursday, December 30 in the middle of the day on the Ministry of Labor website, The new version of the “National Protocol to Ensure the Health and Safety of Employees in Enterprise (PNE)” does not retain the idea of an “average” of three days, mentioned Monday by the Ministry.
The other provisions of this protocol, which relate to the port of the mask, the physical distancing and the prevention of disinfection contaminations have not been modified in relation to the previous version of the document. It will therefore be necessary to happen this year of ceremonies of the wishes or other cakes of the kings with colleagues, since “the moments of conviviality bringing together the face-to-face employees in the professional framework” remain “suspended” until the wave Omicron refluxed.
“fast and dissuasive”
This great return of teleworking, welcomed with pragmatism by the social partners, both on the side of the employer and the unions, is accompanied, again, of sanctions for companies that would not play the game. The minister said Thursday December 30 The price of disobedience: 1,000 euros per employee concerned, up to 50,000 euros per business. A device that must be “faster and dissuasive” than the procedure that prevail until now and which could end before a criminal jurisdiction.
The responsiveness will therefore be necessary to set up a new organization in the companies by the recovery of January 3rd. “The difficulty is to align under the same rule all companies, all sectors combined,” says Catherine Pinchaut, National Secretary of the CFDT. “It will be necessary to do a lot of pedagogy to know who can teleworking and who can not”. The business leaders, however, are confident about their ability to adapt quickly. “In 2020, it was necessary to put 5 million employees in teleworking, and we could do it,” says Dominique Carlac’h, Vice President of the Medef.
“Go to three days today, so it’s practicable”. “Already before the crisis we regularly organized service continuity exercises by closing our agencies, to verify that we were able to deal with any remote situation”, testifies Carlos Fontelas de Carvalho, President of ADP for France and Switzerland, a group specialized in payroll management.
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