They agreed on a joint declaration. Thursday afternoon the Prime Minister met with the unions to discuss the resumption of work from May 11, as he had said Tuesday during the presentation of his deconfinement plan. While France recorded an unprecedented decline of 5.8% of its GDP in the first quarter of 2020, Medef, CFTC and CFDT signed a joint declaration at the end of this meeting, against the background of fear of a second epidemic wave .
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Social dialogue, essential lever for finding the right solutions
The three union organizations agree on a gradual resumption of French economic and social life, in optimal security conditions for employees. They point out that social dialogue is an essential lever for finding the right solutions in companies, but also at national level. They also set the health conditions for a return to work, in particular compliance with barrier gestures and the supply of masks, and point to the need to organize home-work journeys as well as possible.
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Towards a broader recognition of Coivd-19 as an occupational disease?
Other subjects were discussed during this videoconference, such as widening the recognition of the coronavirus as an occupational disease to all employees, and no longer only to caregivers. An enlargement desired by a large part of organizations. "In the opinion of the unions present, the government would seem to favor a relaxation of the measure," reports the PublicSénat.fr site in this regard .