From Monday March 14, 2022, the mask will no longer be compulsory indoors, including in offices, open spaces, factories or professional canteens. But are there any exceptions?
Finally back to normal life? Already no longer required outdoors, and in places subject to the vaccination pass, the mask will no longer be mandatory in the majority of enclosed places, including businesses, starting March 14. Indeed, on March 3, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced the lifting of this measure as well as the end of the vaccination pass. Consequently, this means that we will again be able to see the faces of our colleagues and circulate in the open-space without our mask, and this, whatever the size of the companyconfirmed Élisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labour, on LCITuesday, March 8, 2022.
If this news delights many employees, a question then arises: despite the government’s decision, do certain companies and certain bosses have the right to continue to require the wearing of a mask? Yes, according to the Department of Labor. “The common law of the responsibility of the employer in terms of health and safety continues to apply”the ministry told West France. To be more clear, each employer can thus choose whether or not it keeps the mask indoors for its employees.
Yes, if he considers that there are risks of contamination
“As soon as the employer, on the basis of a risk assessment, considers that there is a more specific risk of contamination, he can provide for the continued wearing of a mask as a preventive measure”, specifies the firm of Elisabeth Borne. And conversely, employees are also entitled to continue to wear their mask at work if they wish and the employer cannot not oppose itcan we read in the ministry’s practical guide concerning “measures to prevent the risk of contamination with Covid-19 outside of an epidemic situation”.