This is a detail that may have escaped the government.

The bill currently under consideration in Parliament and including the extension of the health pass, provides that employees in sectors open to the public must present a valid health pass from August 30.

Otherwise and after a period of two months, they will be dismissed if they do not comply with the system.

Except that in France, dismissing an employee costs money and professionals in the hotel and catering industry said on Wednesday that they "refuse to bear the cost of dismissing employees who will not be in possession of a valid health pass ”.

In a sector weakened by months of closure and faced with a "very strong labor shortage", say professionals, it is "unacceptable" to be "forced to pay severance pay on occasion. such ruptures ”.

A "specific" reason for dismissal

If the owners of cafes, hotels, bars, restaurants, "are not opposed to the health pass in order to avoid the closure of their establishments", it is "not under any conditions", affirm in a joint statement the four employers' organizations in the sector: the main one, the Umih, the GNI (independent), the SNRCT (thematic and commercial catering) and the GNC (hotel chains, whose establishments are subject to the pass for their catering areas).

The provision of the bill debated in the National Assembly provides for requiring professionals to "ensure that their employees are in possession of a valid health pass" and, that "failing to present such proof", these employees could "be subject to dismissal for a reason that the text qualifies as" specific ".

Such a dismissal "must be qualified by a reason which frees the company from costs" because it "will not be at the initiative of the employer, that one forces to separate from the employee", underlines for his part Roland Héguy , president of Umih.

Compensation payable by the State?

According to the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday, it will be a "dismissal for personal reasons", accompanied by "all the guarantees of the procedure provided in this case", accompanied by "severance pay for the employee".

"It is a real and serious cause that you cannot finally do your job, since you cannot stay at your workplace," she said.

"The solution for us is that employees who are recalcitrant to vaccination continue to wear the mask and apply barrier gestures," said Didier Chenet, president of the GNI.

“If there was no other solution, the State will have to bear the costs of redundancies.

But we don't want to lay off ”.

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