The government has asked companies to define "a minimum number" of telecommuting days per week, particularly in areas where the curfew will apply.

In the public service, administrations will have to set up two to three days of teleworking per week. 

The health protocol will invite companies to define "a minimum number" of telework days per week, while in the public service administrations will have to set up an organization allowing two to three days of telework per week, announced the government Thursday. 

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In the public service, "whenever this can be reconciled with the needs of the service, the administrations will define from next week a work organization allowing two to three days of teleworking per week", declared the Prime Minister Jean Castex during '' a press conference organized the day after Emmanuel Macron's intervention on the health crisis.

Companies in curfew zones particularly affected 

For her part, Élisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labor, announced that the health protocol will ask companies, "especially those in areas where the curfew applies, to define a minimum number of days for teleworking. per week for positions which allow it ".

They will also be asked "from next week" to show "the times of arrival and departure at work".

The methods of implementing telework "must be the subject of social dialogue within companies," she recalled.

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Trade unions and employers, gathered in the morning by the minister, will have to make their observations by the end of the day on the protocol, before its new update is published on Friday.

The current protocol requires workers to wear masks, including outdoors.

Teleworking is "recommended".

Emmanuel Macron advocated Wednesday evening "two to three days of teleworking per week" in companies where this is possible, to "reduce collective pressure a little".