“Some companies must deploy teleworking more”, insists Laurent Berger

Three days after the announcements of Prime Minister Jean Castex, who urged companies that can to enforce the rule of four days of teleworking minimum per week, the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger was in favor of this measure. “I am for the day” face-to-face work, “to breathe, for all those who express the need”, he indicated this Sunday in the Grand Jury LCI-Le Figaro-RTL.

Laurent Berger regrets, however, that this instruction is not sufficiently followed to the letter by the various actors, and that the number of days of remote work is lower. “The use of teleworking should be better regulated”, he pleads. “Some companies must make the effort to deploy it further. In a certain number of cases, companies do not trust the employees, and impose several days in person. There are employees for whom the number of days in telework n it is not four a week, it is less. We must denounce it. “

However, to encourage companies to use it, Laurent Berger is unfavorable to a bonus-malus system. “We won’t have time to put it in place”, he believes. “But we must be extremely clear: all companies must put teleworking to the maximum when their activity is ‘teleworkable’, with one day to breathe. If this is not the case, there will be controls and this is normal . “

The secretary general of the CFDT also wonders about the working conditions of remote employees. “At the time of the curfew at 6 p.m., employees found themselves finishing their day at this time, with almost no break, and could no longer go out”, he says. “We must therefore re-examine the way in which we organize work in companies.”

Finally, Laurent Berger wants work from home to continue after the crisis. “Telecommuting will not be a parenthesis, but I do not want it almost 100%” like now, he assures us. “Work is a matter of collective competence, of human relations, of social ties, but in the future we will have more teleworking in a lot of sectors, and that is rather desirable.”