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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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,”…

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