Almost 5,000 checks per month.
This is the objective set by the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, who announced on Tuesday that checks would be carried out "next week" in companies to verify the correct application of teleworking.
Faced with the outbreak of Covid contaminations, Prime Minister Jean Castex called Monday “for two to three days” of telework per week, where possible.
“All companies that can and have not yet done so must step up teleworking.
We set a target of two to three days of telecommuting.
We will see next week whether it is well implemented.
We are going to carry out checks, ”the minister said on the LCI channel.
“I asked the Labor Inspectorate to resume its checks, to return to 5,000 checks per month.
We were less than a thousand in October, ”she said.
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During their visits, "the inspectors will monitor compliance with barrier gestures and the remobilization of companies on teleworking," she added.
Because "it is absolutely necessary that we go back into high gear" in terms of teleworking and "this is what we will measure in a week", insisted Élisabeth Borne, recalling the "responsibility of the employer" to the with regard to the health of its employees.
Favor "social dialogue"
Any sanctions will be "first of all formal notices".
"My objective is really that this strengthening of teleworking can be implemented in the social dialogue within each company and that there is no need to return to obligations", she underlined.
To extend teleworking, "the best formula is really social dialogue" in companies, "as close as possible to the reality of each company", she insisted.
"It takes into account the situation of some employees who had a hard time teleworking in the spring, it also takes into account the fact that we may be in the process of completing a project and that we need to get together more together (…) ”, she noted.
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Our survey carried out by Ipsos-Sopra Steria last October revealed that 64% of working people wanted to see the practice of teleworking develop.
If its strengthening is now strongly encouraged, a return to 100% at home as at the beginning of the year is not desired by employers' organizations.
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, President of Medef, even qualified it as an “error” and recalled the importance of “social dialogue” within companies.
