telecommuting will cease to be the norm and the rule of the “4m2 per employee” will be replaced by a simple distance of one meter.
The government is preparing to reduce the health protocol in the business. This new protocol, that the minister of Labour Muriel Pénicaud has to unveil this week, takes note of a “health situation in the process of significant improvement”. As a result, it abandons the current rule, which limits the number of employees simultaneously present in the premises on the basis of a gauge of at least 4m2 per employee.
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instead, the new document, revealed in a first time by the daily Les Echos states that “each employee must be able to provide a space enabling him to comply with the rule of detachment physics at least one metre compared to any other person.” The employer “can”, however, retain the principle of a “gauge”, and “can” be set at four square metres per employee, but this “indicative”, according to the text.
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Telework for the “workers at risk”
It is expected that the port mask is not required that “when the distance of one meter between the persons is not real, or is likely not to be”. Regarding telework, it is not mentioned in the new draft health protocol that about “workers at risk of serious form of Covid-19”, or those who live in the home of a person in this case. For these employees, “telework must be favored by the employers, on request of the persons concerned”, says the text.
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at the Beginning of June, the Medef has called on the government to speed up the déconfinement companies, reviewing the sanitary protocols that apply to allow a “return to normal” quickly. Last Thursday, the Confederation of small and medium-sized companies (CPME), had claimed to turn the abandonment of the sanitary protocols imposed on businesses “not later than” the 10th of July, the date of exit of the state of public health emergency.
