French companies have frequently negotiated on the subject of telework. The Covid-19 crisis has given fresh impetus to these negotiations as a way to more firmly anchor this type of working arrangement within work organizations. Thus, on 10 November, French utilities group Suez (utilities), together with the CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, and FO trade unions, signed an agreement on telework that implements wide-scale and indefinite remote working in a post-Covid world. Telework is being offered to all Suez employees in France for whom their work is suitable. The agreement provides for telework to be available for voluntary take-up at an average rate of two days per week over the calendar year, and in order to facilitate this type of working organization, the agreement sets out the relevant conditions covering recourse to and implementation of remote working.
The agreement allows all employees of the Suez Group companies in France, regardless of their employment contract and career length, and who hold positions consistent with this type of work organization, to regularly work for part of their total working time from their main or secondary residence (or in a suitable place for potential on-call duty, and after authorization). However, employees taking up this arrangement must have individual organizational skills and a proven degree of autonomy in
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