France : agreement signed on employee protections and social measures amid recommencement of activity at EDF

The agreement, signed on 3 June with all the group's trade unions and the French energy group, addresses the challenges of relaunching business with a global approach. In addition to covering how leave should be managed, health and safety conditions, the adjustments to work organisation necessary for business to resume and employee recognition, the agreement devotes a section to the continuity of social dialogue and the resumption of training and mobility, sets out guarantees for work-study students, and organises feedback on the main changes observed, with a commitment to launch new negotiations to integrate them into the group's conventional structure.

Through . Published on 05 June 2020 Ă  16h06 - Update on 05 June 2020 Ă  16h39

This agreement was largely negotiated remotely between 30 April and 25 May. It is valid until 31 December 2020 and was signed unanimously on the trade union side.

A framework of methods and principles for recommencing business. The chapter dealing with the relaunch of business activity defines the method (presentation to the social and economic committee [CSE] and collection of opinions, then presentation to trade union delegates and sections representatives) and common principles (changing work organisation methods, taking into account the reopening of schools, transport conditions, but also changes to arrival and departure times, etc.) for organising the gradual return of employees to each site.…

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