The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, on Monday encouraged the banking, insurance and engineering / consulting sectors to play the teleworking game even more, while the use of it is eroding in these sectors more than others.
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"I wanted to discuss with the employers' and union organizations in these sectors, because we had identified an erosion of the use of teleworking which is general but which is stronger in these sectors", of the order "of double ", Especially in" the banking sector, "
she told AFP.
The minister has been on the offensive since last week to revive teleworking, one of the keys according to the government to avoid a new confinement.
"In the banking sector, the establishment of teleworking is contrasted according to the networks"
, pointed out the minister, who does not want
"at this stage" to
name the bad pupils.
Asked last week, the French Banking Federation had instead argued its efforts.
"We were among the very first sectors to implement health measures (...), really our feeling is that we are quite good students in this movement"
, explained on France Inter the general manager from the FBF, Maya Atig.
Asked this Monday by AFP, the secretary general of CFDT Banks, Luc Mathieu, was more nuanced, believing that there was indeed
"room for maneuver"
to
"progress"
.
Progress review on February 22
As for the central services,
"we were beyond 80%"
during the first confinement,
"there we are rather in our opinion at 60%"
, he said, basing himself on the feedback from CFDT union delegates.
In question, the famous
weekly
“valve” day
authorized by the government for 100% teleworking employees, but not only.
“There are also managers who want their teams to come back to the site because they don't know how to manage remotely,”
he said.
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In the branches, telework represents
“at best 20%”
of working time, within commercial banks such as LCL or Société Générale, while
“today among mutualists we have virtually no telework in the network, ”
he argued.
At the BNP, only 200 of the 1,700 agencies have set up teleworking, he said.
The departments of the ministry will mobilize in the coming days the companies which must make efforts, and a situation update will be held the week of February 22 to assess the progress made, the ministry said.
