The president of Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux on Wednesday called on the government to leave "flexibility" to companies to organize the wearing of compulsory masks in the workplace, considering that the government's announcement had been "a little brutal" .
The new health protocol in companies in this fall will have to leave "a little flexibility to companies", he said at the opening of the Medef Summer University, called this year "Renaissance of companies in France", at the Longchamp racecourse in western Paris.
"I will survive", but i want to survive without compulsory masks in the workplace
He agreed, however, that "anything is better than re-containment" from the point of view of reviving the economy and resuming business activity. Arrived on stage to the sound of the hit “I will survive” by Gloria Gaynor, the boss of Medef said he wanted to send a message of “optimism” in this comeback marked by a resurgence of contamination on the front of the Covid epidemic. 19.
Maintaining this annual event means "sending a message to our employees and our fellow citizens: yes the Covid-19 is there, but we can, but we must meet, we must continue to consume, to produce, in short to live », He estimated. In front of Prime Minister Jean Castex, who was speaking after him, he called on the government to continue supporting businesses and employees.
Kindness as a bonus
Indicating that there were still “2 million employees” on partial unemployment, he notably judged that “it will be necessary to be financially benevolent for them” in the coming months.
In front of an audience of business leaders reduced due to epidemic, the boss of Medef also reiterated his call to reopen the debate on working time, after having already aroused an uproar by evoking this subject during confinement.
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