“In business, we have to re-mobilize ourselves on this respect for barrier gestures, put the mask back on in meetings, when we are in shared spaces… It is very important at a time when we see that the epidemic is starting again”, declared Élisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labor during a visit to the headquarters of L'Oréal in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine).
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Accompanied by the Secretary of State for Occupational Health Laurent Pietraszewski, she explained that she wanted to come to a company "which applies very rigorously" the health protocol in the company.
In this company, employees benefit from masks available at the entrance, hydroalcoholic gel but also panels and screens reminding barrier gestures.
They can also telecommute two days a week.
On telework, nothing is excluded
In any event, the company protocol "defines the rules that must be applied: firstly the wearing of a mask, but also a whole series of rules on the use of hydroalcoholic gel, on the respect of distances", she recalled while deploring a "certain relaxation" in its application.
"It is important that everyone has in mind that it is not the vaccination or the barrier gestures, but both", she launched while also evoking again more targeted controls of the Labor Inspectorate on compliance with the protocol.
"We would all want to move on to something else but ultimately, wearing the mask, using the hydroalcoholic gel, respecting the distances, this is what will allow us to face this 5th wave while avoiding having more severe constraints She added.
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Asked about a possible tightening of the rules on teleworking if the situation deteriorates, she indicated that it was not possible "to exclude in principle answers for the future".
