Berger asks the government to launch negotiations on telework

Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT, June 24, 2020 at the Elysée.

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Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT, on Friday invited the government to take "its responsibilities" to "frame" telework if the employers refused to open negotiations on the subject, during a back-to-school press conference .

"When the employers do not play the game, the government must take its responsibilities," he said, wondering about "the incomprehensible reluctance of the employers" to launch a negotiation on telework.

“We don't have time to waste making figures of speech (…) if the employers don't want to - which is incomprehensible because they leave a certain number of companies in a kind of

- the government must take responsibility.

The Minister of Labor must assume her responsibilities so that there is an evolution, ”he insisted.

Next meeting Tuesday

Unions and employers have been discussing since June a “shared diagnosis” on teleworking, at the initiative of Medef, which refuses to launch negotiations for a national inter-professional agreement, which the unions demand.

A final meeting is scheduled for September 22, in order to initial this ten-page document which takes stock but makes no recommendation on telework, widely used since the start of the health crisis.

This parity diagnosis “is not stupid”.

But "the CFDT will not sign it if there is not a commitment from the employers to go towards a negotiation", declared Laurent Berger.

“We need to frame things”, in terms of teleworking.

Laurent Berger also judged that an agreement was urgent, believing that if it only arrived in December “it would be messy”.

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