Covid-19: reflection to temporarily make teleworking compulsory "a few days a week", according to Medef

"The Prime Minister on Monday evening asked us to think about a second phase of telework for the beginning of the year which is not 100% telework as today but which is not either the return to the previous stage", Mr. Roux de Bézieux said on BFMTV / RMC.

The envisaged solution could be of the type "a few days a week compulsory, but not 100%", he added, specifying that such a device would be applied for "a few months" while the pandemic has passed.

"We are all convinced - the partners and the government - that 100% teleworking after a few weeks has other psychological consequences, we see the increase in domestic violence, addictions", said the president of the organization. employer.

On the negotiation between employers and unions for a national inter-professional agreement (ANI) on teleworking, he felt that "the ball is in the unions' court" after the latest proposals put on the table by the employers.

Medef pleads so that beyond the obligations defined in the labor code, decisions on the organization of teleworking remain taken by the employer and can be different from one company to another, or even between two sites. within the same company, recalled Mr. Roux de Bézieux.