France: employers' organizations agree to negotiate on teleworking

Pushed by the unions, the employers agreed to open negotiations on telework, with a first meeting scheduled for November 3, 2020. AFP

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In France, the employers agree to open a negotiation on teleworking, whereas they had opposed it until now.

The unions want the negotiation of a national inter-professional agreement.

Two first meetings are scheduled, November 3 and 23, 2020.

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With the health crisis and confinement, teleworking has exploded in France.

More than a quarter of workers performed all of their tasks remotely.

The experience has been conclusive, since today nearly 80% want to continue teleworking, on a regular or occasional basis.

Supervision of the disconnection, material organization, support of costs, all these elements must be the subject of negotiation, say the unions who wish to protect employees against abuses.

This is why they are asking for a national inter-professional agreement.

The employers agree to negotiate, but do not want a normative agreement.

No question of imposing binding provisions for companies.

On the union side, the CFDT, Force Ouvrière and CFE-CGC announced that they would be present at the negotiating table.

Two first meetings are already scheduled for November 3 and 23. 

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