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Telework: negotiation suspended until Tuesday morning

2020-11-24T12:07:37.422Z


New meeting on Tuesday, November 24 at 10:30 a.m.: employers and unions decided to suspend negotiations, after nearly eight hours of close discussions on Monday, which did not result in a national inter-professional agreement (ANI) on teleworking, due to "sticking points" . Read also: Teleworking will remain the norm until Christmas and probably beyond “Not enough social progress,” explained Mic


New meeting on Tuesday, November 24 at 10:30 a.m.: employers and unions decided to suspend negotiations, after nearly eight hours of close discussions on Monday, which did not result in a national inter-professional agreement (ANI) on teleworking, due to

"sticking points"

.

Read also: Teleworking will remain the norm until Christmas and probably beyond

“Not enough social progress,”

explained Michel Picon, from U2P (local businesses), after the meeting.

Among the

“blocking points”

, he listed the eligibility of teleworking positions.

The document proposed by the employers does not mention this subject, considering that this subject is the responsibility of the employer.

The unions demand that it appears in the ANI.

The negotiations, which started on November 3, are difficult, as the positions of the unions and the employers are far apart.

This meeting, which was to be the last, had started at 3 p.m., before being interrupted for about two hours in the evening, the time to let the employers floor on modifications, to try to coax the unions.

This new text, of which AFP has obtained a copy, does not show any major changes compared to the previous one.

Read also: Telework: the employers propose a revised text to convince the unions

Among the most notable changes, it no longer offers

"adjustments"

for the rules on health and safety, when teleworking is set up,

"in the event of exceptional circumstances or force majeure"

(pandemic, natural disasters, destruction of company premises), which worried the unions.

But the

“red lines”

remain unchanged.

On reversibility, which allows an employee to put an end to teleworking, the wording has not changed.

However, FO claims that the employee can have the guarantee of being kept in his position, whether he is teleworking or not.

Nothing either on the binding character at the national level of this possible ANI, the document approaching it from the angle of the agreements in company or branches.

"If the employers want us to sign, the agreement must be binding,"

warns Eric Courpotin (CFTC).

Read also: Teleworking: five tips to better experience the reconfinement

“What is very clear is that the red lines are not filled.

There is nothing on the measurement of working time, nothing on the measurement of objectives, nothing in the area of ​​work accidents or safety.

There is not even the minimum basis

,

commented in the evening to AFP François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC.

For him, it is a negotiation

"which slips and has little chance of succeeding"

.

"It is badly started"

, had declared Philippe Martinez, his counterpart of the CGT, on RTL, just before the interruption of session.

He noted a

"hard point"

, which also bothers all his union peers:

"The employers always refuse a normative agreement.

This agreement will not be binding.

Rather, it is a guide, ”

he said, referring to

“ a declining agreement ”

.

The subject is all the more sensitive, since since the new confinement at the end of October, the health protocol in companies has been modified, making telework

"the rule"

in companies that can.

Élisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labor, has since repeated that an ANI would give

"benchmarks"

to employers.

And after a videoconference meeting with Jean Castex, ahead of the speech by the President of the Republic on Tuesday, Yves Veyrier, the secretary general of FO, assured AFP that

"work at home for health reasons remains maintained until December 31 ”

.

To read also: "In teleworking, there is no shame to crack, it must be said"

The employers' document has already been amended for the first time and sent to the unions overnight from Sunday to Monday, taking up, as promised by Hubert Mongon (Medef),

“points of convergence”

found with the unions during the previous meeting.

Among these

"points"

, the text no longer proposes a relaxation of the legislation on industrial accidents (currently attributable to the employer).

When teleworking is set up

"in the event of exceptional circumstances or force majeure"

, there is no longer any question of going back on the consultation deadlines for employee representative bodies, another

"red line"

.

However, the employers maintain the unilateral decision of the employer - and not of the public authorities - to resort to telework in these exceptional circumstances.

The unions also insisted that any agreement between employer and employee be in writing.

The text continues to indicate that formalization must be done

"by any means"

but underlines

"the usefulness of having recourse to a writing, whatever it is"

.

Concerning the costs, the employers seem to take a step towards the unions who demanded that this be the subject of negotiation in the company: the

“possible”

assumption of responsibility

can be,

“if necessary, a subject of social dialogue within of the company

, ”the document says.

Source: lefigaro

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