France: metallurgy sector agreement on emergency measures to deal with paid leave, rest days, and working hours

On 3 April the metallurgy sector’s employers’ body, the UIMM, along with the relevant trade union federations, the CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO (the CGT absent) signed an agreement on work organization arrangements to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. This agreement, plays a supplementary role, i.e. only applies when a company agreement is lacking, and intends for provisions relating to the taking and modification of paid leave days so that companies can better manage the health crisis hiatus and prepare as well as possible for a resumption of activity as soon as public health conditions allow.

Through . Published on 07 April 2020 à 16h20 - Update on 07 April 2020 à 16h27

Partial activity. The agreement’s signatories want “Company negotiations to be prioritized so that the sector agreement solely plays a supplementary role”, the agreement states. This sector agreement will only apply in the absence of company agreements, and those negotiated previously will not be called into question. As regards company recourse to partial activity, the agreement intends that, “Taking into account their own economic and financial capacities,…

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