Elisabeth Borne is under fire from criticism from part of the opposition.

The heads of the senatorial right denounced Wednesday the declarations "inopportune and without legal basis" of the Minister of Labor, who assured that an employee may well be dismissed if he does not produce a health pass.

In a joint press release, Bruno Retailleau and Hervé Marseille, the presidents of the LR and centrist Union groups, majority in the Senate, recall that such a provision has been withdrawn from the government bill. "While the government wanted to make the lack of a health pass a real and serious cause of dismissal, the Senate and then the joint committee removed this too brutal provision from the final text", they write.

The new law, voted on Sunday by the two chambers, "creates a new reason for the suspension of the employment contract for which it does not provide for the possibility of dismissing the employee", continue the senators.

"It is obvious" that "the legislator wished to exclude the possibility of dismissing the suspended employee for lack of vaccination or presentation of the health pass", they still emphasize, while "conversely, the text of the government covered this case entirely and weakened the employees ”.

"Reassure employees"

For the two leaders of the senatorial right, the law finally adopted "is clear and one cannot reasonably doubt the application of it by the judges". “The recent declarations of ministers Elisabeth Borne and Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Industry, Editor's note) point to a desire for revenge on the backs of employees”, an “unprecedented contempt for Parliament”, they criticize. To "reassure the employees", the two parliamentarians therefore repeat that "the lack of vaccination or the lack of presentation of the health pass is a cause of suspension of the employment contract, certainly not of dismissal".

In an interview with Les

Echos

posted online Wednesday evening, Elisabeth Borne assures us, however, that her "objective from the start is to avoid at all costs leading to redundancies" and that it is in particular "for this reason that after three days of suspension of the employment contract for lack of a pass, an interview between the employer and the employee is scheduled.

And that the possibilities of taking leave, RTT, teleworking or temporary reclassification should be examined, when possible ”.

“I trust employers and employees to find a solution,” she insists, assuring that the government will be “very vigilant, in conjunction with the social partners.

If we find any difficulties or abuses, then we need to supervise things, ”admits the Minister.

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