Coronavirus: unions and employers have set up crisis cells

Everyone at home and teleconference for everyone. Since France entered containment on Tuesday March 17 at noon, teleworking - when possible - has become the rule and both union and employer organizations are no exception. The anti-propagation instructions for the pandemic have emptied the administrative seats of their occupants, from avenue Bosquet (Medef) to boulevard de la Villette (CFDT) via rue de Paris in Montreuil (CGT). Some had even anticipated the sequence. “ Right after the school closings were announced on Thursday the 13th, I felt the confinement coming and sent an internal circular to cancel all the meetings. As of Monday the 16th, all our premises were closed, ”explains Laurent Escure, the secretary general of Unsa.

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Now everything is done by phone, and when technical means allow, by videoconference. " We already knew how to do it, that doesn't change much, " relativizes Yves Veyrier, his FO counterpart. " It still poses

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