Health pass: suspended employees will not be entitled to unemployment benefits, warns Elisabeth Borne

  

The Minister of Labor tells the JDD (le Journal du dimanche, also called the JDD, is a French weekly current affairs newspaper founded in 1948 and published on Sundays. Owned by Lagardère News, a subsidiary of the Lagardère SCA group, it is the only national Sunday general information weekly in France.) that this will not be a "breach of contract" for employees who work in a place with a health pass but who will not have them themselves from August 30.

"This is not a breach of contract, so he will not be entitled to unemployment benefits." The response to Elisabeth Borne's JDD this Sunday is clear. If an employee supposed to have the health pass deviates from this rule, he will no longer receive anything. Neither salary, as we already knew, nor unemployment benefit, specifies the Minister of Labor.

From August 30, the staff of establishments where the health pass already applies or will apply from this Monday (restaurants, cafes, cinemas, etc.) must also have it. The implementing decree published this Sunday in the Official Journal provides that “employees, public officials, volunteers and other people who intervene in the places, establishments, services or events concerned, when their activity takes place in the spaces and at the hours when they are accessible to the public, with the exception of delivery activities and except emergency response ”.

In the event of a breach of this rule, the person in question will no longer be able to occupy his position, the time to be vaccinated (or to carry out regular tests). "I am aware that the suspension of the employment contract and therefore of the remuneration is difficult for the employee concerned, but the objective is to give him time to comply with his obligation, avoiding a disciplinary sanction", justifies Elisabeth Borne . "If an employee decided never to fulfill his vaccination obligation, then we would enter into a process of common law, with the possibility of termination of the employment contract," then warns the minister.

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