the new national corporate protocol unveiled

“Three days of telework minimum per week for the positions which allow it, four if possible, and for three weeks minimum from January 3. “Published Thursday, December 30 in the middle of the day on the website of the Ministry of Labor, the new version of the” National Protocol to ensure the health and safety of employees in the workplace (PNE) “does not retain the idea of ​​a ” medium “ of three days, mentioned Monday by the ministry.

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The other provisions of this protocol, which relate to the wearing of a mask, physical distancing and the prevention of contamination by disinfection have not been modified compared to the previous version of the document. It will therefore be necessary to do without this year ceremonies of the wishes or other pancakes of the kings with the colleagues, since “Moments of conviviality bringing together face-to-face employees within the professional framework” stay “Suspended” while waiting for the Omicron wave to ebb.

“Fast and dissuasive”

This great comeback of teleworking, welcomed with pragmatism by the social partners, both on the side of employers and unions, is accompanied, a new fact, by sanctions for companies that do not play the game. price of disobedience: 1,000 euros per employee concerned, up to a limit of 50,000 euros per company. A device that must be “Faster and dissuasive” that the procedure which prevailed until now and which could be completed before a criminal court.

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Responsiveness will therefore be required to set up a new organization in companies by the resumption of January 3. ” The difficulty is to align all companies, all sectors combined, under the same rule. », Argues Catherine Pinchaut, national secretary of the CFDT. “ It will be necessary to do a lot of pedagogy to know who can telework and who cannot. “. However, business leaders are confident in their ability to adapt quickly. “ In 2020, we had to put 5 million employees in telework, and we were able to do it », Recalls Dominique Carlac’h, vice-president of Medef.

“Going to three days today is therefore practicable”. “Already before the crisis, we regularly organized service continuity exercises by closing our branches, to check that we were able to deal with any situation from a distance”, testifies Carlos Fontelas De Carvalho, president of ADP for France and Switzerland, a group specializing in payroll management.

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