Business leaders fear being sued by their employees in the event that they are infected with the virus in their workplace, at the time of deconfinement. Guest of Europe 1 Monday, Patrick Martin, Medef's deputy president, said that the company should act against the epidemic but could not be held responsible for its spread.

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As the country prepares to gradually emerge from confinement, many employees will return to their workplaces. Patrick Martin, deputy chairman of Medef, expressed the fear among many business leaders of criminal prosecution in the event that one of their workers is affected by the coronavirus. "It is important that in this exceptional period we take measures, which certainly do not exempt companies from their obligations of means, but which shelter business leaders from an obligation of results", a- he declared at the microphone of Europe 1, Monday.

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