The president of Medef, illustration – Gonzalo Fuentes / AP / SIPA
The president of Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux on Wednesday called on the government to leave “flexibility” to
companies to organize
wearing a mask is compulsory in the workplace, believing that the government’s announcement had been “a bit blunt”.
The new health protocol to fight against the spread of coronavirus in companies in this return will have to leave “a little flexibility to companies”, he said at the opening of the Medef Summer University, called this year “Renaissance of companies in France”, at the racetrack de Longchamp in the west of Paris.
“I will survive”, but i want to survive without compulsory masks in the workplace
He agreed, however, that “anything is better than reconfinement »From the point of view of the recovery of the economy and the recovery of business activity. Arrived on stage to the sound of the hit “I will survive” by Gloria Gaynor, the boss of Medef said he wanted to send a message of “optimism” in this comeback marked by a resurgence of contamination on the front of the Covid epidemic. 19.
Maintaining this annual event means “sending a message to our employees and our fellow citizens: yes the Covid-19 is there, but we can, but we must meet, we must continue to consume, to produce, in short to live », He estimated. In front of Prime Minister Jean Castex, who was speaking after him, he called on the government to continue supporting businesses and employees.
Kindness as a bonus
Indicating that there were still “2 million employees” on partial unemployment, he notably ruled that “it will be necessary to be financially benevolent for them” in the coming months.
In front of an audience of business leaders reduced due to epidemic, the boss of Medef also reiterated his call to reopen the debate on working time, after having already aroused an uproar by evoking this subject during confinement.
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