Punish to enforce the instructions.
From January 3, private sector employees and civil servants who can do so will have to telework at least three days a week, to fight against Covid-19.
Recalcitrant companies could soon receive administrative fines, announced the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne on Tuesday.
"The minister announced to the social partners that she wished to propose an amendment to the bill to put in place more dissuasive and faster sanctions, of an administrative nature", the minister's office informed at the end of the process. a videoconference with various professional representatives.
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"Administrative fines for recalcitrant companies will be introduced by amendment into the bill" which will transform the health pass into a vaccination pass, reported Michel Beaugas, Confederal Secretary for the Labor Force.
“Today, the sanctions are criminal.
It is long and, to simplify this, administrative sanctions will be proposed.
The idea is to put it in place for companies that do not really play the telecommuting game, not when there is a disagreement on a particular function in a department ”, added Cyril Chabanier, president of the department. CFTC.
Refractory companies
"The feedback from the Labor Inspectorate shows that some companies remain resistant" to the implementation of telework as provided for in the national company protocol (PNE), underlined the ministry.
A new version of the national protocol will be published by Thursday.
It will include an "obligation of teleworking 3 days per week on average for positions which allow it, for three weeks, from January 3," as Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Monday.
In addition, "companies which can go further are asked to increase teleworking to 4 days a week when possible", specifies the ministry.
As the Ministry has emphasized on several occasions, this "obligation" stems from the need for the employer to ensure the health of its employees, enshrined in the Labor Code, even if its concrete translation in each company is the responsibility of the directorates. companies, if possible within the framework of social dialogue.
The CGT-TEFP, the first union of labor inspection officers, has long called for a tightening of the legal framework concerning teleworking, denouncing the weakness of the penalties incurred and the lack of staff to control companies.
Élisabeth Borne did not specify what the amount of the fines could be, this question being under arbitration.
However, one of the social partners told Les Échos that employees who refused to comply with the rule would incur a fine of up to 2,000 euros.
