As during the first wave.
The decree expanding the number of people at risk of Covid-19 and opening short-time work to these “people most vulnerable to the risk of a serious form of infection” was published on Wednesday in the Official Journal (JO) and will come into force on Thursday .
A previous decree had put an end, as of September 1, to the exceptional compensation system (certificate of isolation and partial unemployment) for vulnerable workers, instituted in early May due to the health crisis.
Several associations of patients and health professionals then expressed their concern and asked for guarantees regarding the conditions of return to work of vulnerable people.
In the decree published on Wednesday, the government provides the list of situations deemed to be at risk, in particular being "65 years old and over", "being in the third trimester of pregnancy", suffering from "complicated arterial hypertension", "diabetes. unbalanced "," severe asthma ", Parkinson's disease," progressive cancer under treatment (excluding hormone therapy) ", etc.
Obligations for the employer
If these vulnerable people cannot "make full use of telework", they will have to benefit from "reinforced protection measures" at their workplace, such as an individual office or a fitted out workstation, reinforced barrier gestures, etc. be adapted to “avoid rush hour”.
The employer will also have to provide surgical masks "in sufficient number" for trips between home and the workplace when the person uses "collective means of transport".
Vulnerable people who will not be able to telework 100%, nor to benefit from "reinforced protection measures" at their place of work or their home-work journey, may be placed in partial activity at their request and "on presentation to the employer. a certificate issued by a doctor ”, according to the decree.
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"When the employee disagrees with the employer on the assessment" of the reinforced protection measures mentioned in the decree, he can seize the occupational physician and will be placed in partial activity "pending" his opinion, indicates the government.
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Welcoming this decree on Wednesday "aimed at protecting" vulnerable people, Unsa however regretted the absence of "measures for people living under the same roof".
"For Unsa, and as a precautionary principle, they should be able to benefit from the same protective measures, as well as a right to telework when the position held makes it possible," said the union in a press release.