Lhe government wants to impose administrative fines on businesses that are reluctant to set up teleworking, the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, announced to the social partners during a videoconference on Tuesday 28 December. “The minister announced that she wished to propose an amendment to the bill to put in place more dissuasive and faster sanctions,” the minister’s office said after the meeting.
Administrative fines for recalcitrant companies will be introduced by amendment in the bill which will transform the health pass into a vaccination pass. “When companies do not play the game today, it involves criminal penalties. 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 ”, declared Cyril Chabanier, president of the department. CFTC.
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Some companies remain resistant
According to the Ministry of Labor, the feedback from the Labor Inspectorate shows that some companies remain resistant to the implementation of teleworking as provided for in the national company protocol (PNE). A new version of it will be published by Thursday, including an obligation to telework three days a week on average for positions that allow it, for three weeks, from January 3. In addition, companies that can go a step further and increase teleworking to four days a week are asked.
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 company management, if possible within the framework of social dialogue. The CGT-TEFP, the first union of labor inspection agents, 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. The Minister did not specify what the amount of the fines could be, this question still being arbitrated.