The government has decided to lower the administrative penalty for companies not respecting the instructions on teleworking, to 500 euros per employee, once morest the 1,000 euros initially planned, announced this Friday the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne.
Wanting to “reassure small businesses regarding the level of the sanction”, the government has decided to lower the maximum amount per employee to 500 euros, once morest 1,000 euros so far, while maintaining a ceiling of 50,000 euros per business, said the minister on France 2.
“We need sanctions for companies that do not play the game”, failing which an “inequity” is established, believes Élisabeth Borne. “We are going to re-establish an administrative sanction”, she specifies, following the deletion by the Senate of this provision in the bill on the vaccination pass. “What we see today is that the figures are stagnating: 60% of French people who can easily telework do so, no more than in December,” noted the minister.
Senators opposed administrative sanctions once morest companies that do not play the telecommuting game or do not apply protocols. The Senate Social Affairs Committee considered that “these provisions were part of a coercive logic which was neither useful nor desirable”.
New twist in the already chaotic course of the bill establishing the vaccine pass: once morest the backdrop of the presidential campaign, a tweet from the boss of senators LR, Bruno Retailleau, threw up on Thursday evening the close agreement between deputies and senators on this text which unleashes passions.
An increase in work stoppages without consequences
After another reading in the upper house, probably on Saturday, the Assembly will have the last word, during the weekend or at the beginning of the week.
Faced with record contamination from Covid-19, the corporate health protocol provides since January 3, for three weeks, that employers set “a minimum number of three days of teleworking per week, for positions that allow it”. Previously, it provided for a simple “target” of two to three days a week.
Élisabeth Borne underlines this Friday “an increase in work stoppages which continues at the beginning of January”, but which has, according to her, no “impact on economic activity”.