While short-time working reached a new high of 8 million workers this Saturday, the Secretary of State for the Economy Agnès Pannier-Runacher warned on "France Info" companies against fraud, claiming that it there would be controls. "There will be controls" and if they "show that short-time working is used badly and that people combine short-time working and teleworking, it will be very bad for the companies concerned", she warned
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"There will be checks"
Agnès Pannier-Runacher "calls for the responsibility of each company" and says that she counts on the responsibility of employees, union organizations and employee representatives to have "a form of clarity on the situation". "I invite companies not to play this too much because it would be completely out of place" at a time when "a little more than a third of employees in the private sector are on partial unemployment", she insisted.
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Telework incompatible with the partial unemployment of employees
When an employer asks an employee to telework while the latter is placed in partial activity, this is akin to fraud and is assimilated to illegal work, according to the Ministry of Labor.
Any failure to comply with this rule is punishable by cumulative sanctions, namely the full reimbursement of sums received as part-time work, the prohibition on receiving public aid for employment for a maximum of five years. or professional training, as well as two years imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros.