Carole Ferry 7:38 p.m., December 28, 2021

The government is considering fines for companies that do not enforce teleworking.

As announced yesterday by Prime Minister Jean Castex, during his briefing to the press with Minister of Health Olivier Véran, teleworking becomes an obligation three days a week minimum. 

For the first time since the start of the epidemic, the government therefore wants to include in law the obligation to respect the rule of teleworking.

With the key, the possibility for the labor inspectorate to issue fines to companies that do not play the game of administrative fines. 

Elisabeth Borne much firmer

The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, today received the social partners with a clear message: the government will be much more firm on the application of teleworking. 

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Until now, companies have risked a criminal sanction that is much more difficult to implement.

Moreover, none has been pronounced so far.

The government's objective is therefore to put pressure on the resistant companies.

A turn of the screw very little appreciated by the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME).

The fine could be around 2,000 euros per employee

“What's going to happen is that the labor inspector is kind of going to have a logbook and can put a fine. I'm sorry, but that's not the way it should work. It gives the impression that, on the government side, we can no longer simply rely on trust and consider companies as partners and that we have to pull the stick and what we send them as a message. 'is not good, "railed its secretary general, Jean-Eudes du Mesnil du Buisson.

The amount of these fines has, however, not yet been decided.

It could be around 2,000 euros per employee, but remains, all the same, to be specified.