Home » Legal developments » National legislation » France: employers ready to negotiate on remote working France: employers ready to negotiate on remote working Through . Published on 22 September 2020 à 15h12 - Update on 22 September 2020 à 15h53 Resources On 22 September, Medef, France’s largest employers’ organization, announced it had agreed to open negotiations on remote working. Following six meetings with the social partners that sought to establish a joint diagnosis on the lessons to be learned from recent developments in remote working (c.f. article No.11989) the employers’ organization has finally agreed to a unanimously trade union organisation backed request to negotiate. There is “room for an agreement” the leader of the employers’ delegation suggested at the end of 22 September meeting, which is expected to be conclusive, reported the AFP news agency. The purpose of these negotiations “would be to recall the main principles of the relevant legislation, identify the new questions that need to be asked, and also to shed some light on them”, the Medef leader stated both as an indication that his organization did not intend to carry out an in-depth review of the current regulatory framework and as a warning that the agreement would be “neither prescriptive nor normative”. Indeed the employers’ body holds that the issue should be dealt with at the level of the companies and sectors that are already negotiating on the subject. Trade union expectations are different in so far as for them this is a matter of safeguarding the voluntary nature of remote working, organizing employers’ responsibility for remote working related expenses, and regulating disconnection from work and workloads, etc. Two initial meetings are already scheduled for 03 and 23 November. The joint diagnosis received a favourable opinion from the three trade union organizations: CFDT, CFE-CGC, and FO. Remote work regulations Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messageRGPD J’accepte la politique de confidentialité.CommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels