In of a minimum number of telework days, strict eligibility criteria and mandatory compensation, the agreement focuses on a framework and a set of principles. Sought by the unions as early as summer 2020, this text was delayed by negotiations over the national cross-industry agreement in the autumn of the same year (c.f. article No.12449). However, it was finally signed a year later, albeit without support from the CGT. “The agreement comes at the right time as companies are no longer constrained to operate under the health protocol on the subject,” explains Pascal Le Guyader, Deputy Director General of LEEM, continuing, “Many HR managers in the sector have been waiting for this framework in order to negotiate their own telework agreements.”
France: a telework agreement secured in the pharmaceutical sector
On 09 September the pharmaceutical sector employers’ federation, Les Entreprises du Médicament (LEEM), and five representative trade unions (FO, CFE-CGC, CFDT, CFTC, and UNSA) signed an agreement establishing a telework framework for the sector, which employs some 124,000. The text, which is intended to provide a framework for companies to negotiate their own terms and conditions, insists on telework being used under extraordinary circumstances and as a support for pregnant employees, family carers, those pursuing dual work-study programs, and disabled employees working remotely.
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