France: an agreement to indefinitely maintain teleworking at Suez Group

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.