“The sanitary situation, even if it seems to move towards a plateau, does not appear to date allowing a lifting or an immediate relaxation of teleworking measures,” said the Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne.
Le Monde with AFP
The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, announced, Wednesday, January 19, to the representatives of the employer trade union organizations and employees that the government proposed to extend “for another two weeks” the rule providing for three days of teleworking at least per week To fight against the Covid-19 epidemic, has been learned from the ministry.
The minister clarified the trade union organizations that “the health situation, even if it seems to move towards a plateau, will not be able to allow a lifting or an immediate relaxation of the measures concerning teleworking “, we were added in the same source. These measures had been strengthened on January 3, initially for three weeks.
brake the omicron variant thrust
The Prime Minister Jean Castex, had called upon December to foster teleworking, two to three days a week. Just before Christmas, on Europe 1, M me borne had invited companies “to prepare to strengthen teleworking as of January 3”. The employer trade union organizations and employees themselves, at a meeting on December 20 with the Minister, had cited the extension of teleworking as one of the “levers” possible to curb the omicron variant thrust.
If teleworking is a business agreement, the Executive may impose a minimum rule for workers’ protection measures. In the fall of 2020, the company’s health protocol had imposed teleworking for several months as a rule, even stating that it had to be “100% for employees who can perform all of their remote tasks” before being relaxed in stages.
In November 2021, about 25% of employees regularly practiced teleworking, according to DARES figures, the Department of Labor Statistics Branch published on December 23. At the height of the crisis, in the spring of 2020, this figure was 40% mounted – which means that there is room for maneuver on this issue.