A postponement of the health pass for employees working in places open to the public until September 30.
This is what the Medef asks after the announcements of Emmanuel Macron on July 12.
The entry into force of the obligation concerning the employees of these establishments is, for the time being, set for August 30.
The latter must have completed their vaccination schedule or undergo a screening test every two days.
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For the boss of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, this date of August 30 is "
a huge handicap to the recovery"
, he explains in an interview with the
Parisian
, asking
"to postpone this deadline to September 30"
.
He thus underlines the difficulties that employers will encounter in the face of suspended employees, added to the current lack of manpower from which certain sectors such as restaurants suffer.
The union also denounces the obligation for these places to hire people vaccinated from September 1, and indicates that they have
"Proposed to the government to leave, at least, one month of delay during which an employer can hire an unvaccinated candidate, with a condition precedent in the contract if the person does not fulfill his commitment to be vaccinated"
.
State severance pay
As for the dismissal of employees who refuse to comply with the health pass, the Medef asks
"that the indemnities be the responsibility of the State and not of the employer"
. The bill provides for a
"suspension of the employment contract, obviously without remuneration"
, recalled the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne on Tuesday on BFMTV. This suspension of the employment contract may be extended for two months and then either the employer and the employee
"agree to continue this suspension of the employment contract, or the employer may initiate the disciplinary procedure which applies when there is no response. not to an obligation of vaccination, that is to say a warning, a layoff and that can go up to the dismissal "
,she detailed.
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The Medef does not, however, say it is hostile to the bill, validated by the Council of State on Monday.
"We generally support the bill,"
says Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
The question of shopping centers
Besides the calendar, he underlines another point of disagreement: the application of the health pass to shopping centers. On Tuesday, the government decided to maintain this obligation for those of more than 20,000 m2 despite the unfavorable opinion of the Council of State on this subject. The main French employers' union is worried on the one hand about
"the risk is to create huge queues for customers".
On the other hand, he warns about the difficulty of controlling all those who enter these large shopping centers, in particular the external
parties
such as
"delivery men and sales representatives who pass occasionally"
.