Employers must pay the expenses related to the masks of their employees. The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, on Tuesday August 18 proposed to trade unions and employers to generalize the obligation to wear this protective equipment in confined spaces of companies from September 1.

The government of Jean Castex wishes "Systematize the wearing of masks in closed and shared spaces within companies and associations (meeting rooms, and cleaner open space, corridors, changing rooms, shared offices, etc.) ”, but not in "Individual offices" where is not "One person", said in a press release the Ministry of Labor.

"It will be studied, with the social partners, the modalities of a referral to the High Council of Public Health on the possible conditions of adaptation » of the obligation, specifies the Ministry of Labor.

“When it comes to providing employees with these masks, it is clearly the employer's responsibility” - Elisabeth Borne on BFM TV.

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