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"A whole organization to review": the long negotiation of company agreements on teleworking

2021-06-26T03:44:02.629Z


According to the Ministry of Labor, more than 2,000 companies have reached an agreement with their unions to regulate the practice of teleworking.


"We are at the start of a new era, the rest of the story is yet to be written," summarizes Aube Jeanbart, the organizer of the first Congress dedicated to teleworking, which takes place Tuesday and Wednesday in Lyon.

Because if the telework revolution is underway, it raises “dizzying” questions.

Its regulatory framework, for example.

To date, according to the figures we have obtained from the Ministry of Labor, 2,118 companies have finalized their agreement since 2020. Large groups such as Renault or Stellantis have just unveiled them.

And the pace is accelerating since 951 pacts have been sealed since January 1, 2021.

"We cannot settle everything in three or four months"

But while the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, encourages employers to start negotiations with their employees, through their union representatives, many want to take their time, "wait until the end of the year to see how the process is going. back to school ”, analyzes Aube Jeanbart.

"It's a whole organization to review, we cannot settle everything in three or four months", abounds Jean-François Foucard, national secretary of the CFE-CGC management union.

Beyond the number of days of remote work, the discussions focus on several points: “The eligible population, the issue of allowances or the cost of meals.

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In the field, the experience feedback is extremely varied. Frédéric Kuntzmann, CEO of the start-up My Serious Game (tailor-made digital training) in Tours (Indre-et-Loire), had no trouble putting in place an agreement with the social and economic committee (CSE) of his company of 42 employees. He regrets a "vagueness on the compensation of costs". "We would have liked to have a benchmark", beyond the scale of the Urssaf which recommends a monthly package, he emphasizes.

Sometimes, the negotiation is not formalized by an agreement but by a charter, less reassuring for the employee but easier to set up.

This is the choice made by Laurent Latorse, director of Airod Technologies south of Toulouse.

The nature of its activity (engineering and manufacturing of machines for transport and aerospace) requires a strong on-site presence of its 24 employees.

“They will be able to telework a maximum of three days per week.

Their request will be examined every Friday during the planning meeting, ”summarizes the company manager.

"A law could specify the conditions for exercising telework"

The situation can be more tense in small companies, where the bosses "are afraid of losing the sense of the collective", underlines Caroline Lamandé, consultant in human resources in Villeurbanne (Rhône). Not to mention “industrial SMEs, where 70% of the workforce occupies non-teleworkable functions”. "The possibility for some to remain at a distance can create friction between employees and the CSEs do not know how to position themselves," she adds. "We should be able to consider job bonuses for those who cannot telework", considers François Cochet, president of the Federation of psychosocial risk workers.

What geographical place of work, what hours, what framework for the right to disconnect… Even when remote work is possible and favored, the questions to be anticipated remain very numerous. Jean-François Foucard, of the CFE-CGC, pleads for “fixed-term agreements” and review clauses in a few months. At My Serious Game, employees will be able to telework at 50% from September 1. “Some would like more. We will take stock at the end of the year, ”predicts the CEO.

To harmonize very heterogeneous practices, some voices are raised to demand a more restrictive framework than the national inter-professional agreement signed last November. "A law could specify the conditions for exercising telework: minimum right in certain defined functions, conditions of compensation, question of meal vouchers, etc." defends Marie Baci, lawyer in labor law within the firm TGS France. Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the CGT, asks for “negotiations around a new inter-professional agreement which would give rise to a law to frame its implementation”. But the Ministry of Labor does not consider this possibility at all, preferring to leave the hand to the companies.

Source: leparis

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