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France: No health pass, no salary

Tougher regulations for employees in catering and other areas of public life come into force next Monday

The pressure on the non-vaccinated in France is increased. Starting next Monday, August 30, their efforts will increase if they want to continue receiving their salaries. According to the law that came into force at the beginning of this month to deal with the Corona crisis, people in professions that are in contact with the public will have to show a health passport (pass sanitaire), otherwise they can be suspended by their employer. Salaries will also be suspended.

If your job is affected by the obligation to present a health passport as of August 30, 2021, you do not have such a document, and you do not decide to take a leave of absence in agreement with your employer, your employer will inform you in some way about the suspension of your obligations or your employment contract. You will no longer be paid. This suspension will end as soon as you present one of these three documents.

service-public.fr

For the health passport, either shown on a smartphone or in paper form, the following are required: proof of a double Corona vaccination, proof of a negative test not older than 72 hours, or medical proof of recovery from a Covid 19 illness since which at least 11 days and no more than six months have passed.

The duration of the underlying law is scheduled to expire Nov. 15; based on the experience of the Corona crisis to date, an extension can be expected, depending on the incidence of infection and hospital occupancy.

On the website of the French administration - service-public.fr - a longer list of the fields of activity covered by these regulations is presented: catering, cafés, bars, restaurants, clubs, discotheques, cultural, sporting, tourist or leisure events, cinemas, casinos, museums, zoos, seminars, etc., trains and airplanes, as well as department stores and large shopping centers with more than 20,000 m2, with the competent prefects drawing up a list here, as the administration lets it be known.

However, the last few days have shown that the last point, access to large shopping centers, is not legally watertight: The complaint of lawyers, whose cause was the restricted access to the shopping center Parly 2 in Yvelines, was granted. Since then, the obligation to present a health passport in shopping centers with more than 20,000 square meters has been called into question, and not only in the department of Yvelines.

The Versailles Administrative Court has suspended the prefectoral decree requiring the presentation of a health passport at the entrance of the fourteen largest shopping centers in the department. The reason is that it does not make provisions for people who do not have a health passport and who need to provide themselves with basic necessities.

Le Parisien

Unsafe terrain is also found elsewhere in the repressive regulations. A recent report by Mediapart asked in job centers:

Can the rejection of a job offer because of a missing health passport be a reason for a sanction (i. O. "radiation", suspension of unemployment benefits, author's note)? Currently, the rejection of two "reasonable job offers" (corresponding to the jobseeker's project) leads to a loss of unemployment benefits for one month.

Will an unemployed person who cannot demonstrate an "active search" for the above reason be subject to a sanction? Mediapart has asked these questions to the Ministry of Labor and the Pôle emploi since mid-July. No answer.

Incidentally, an employee suspended from work for not having a health passport also does not receive unemployment benefits because the employment contract remains in force.

Cécile Hautefeuille's report brings to light a few more tricky parts of the bill. For example, starting Monday, will employers be allowed to ask applicants for a job, a workplace, an internship, whether they have been double-vaccinated? That's going too far for lawyers who insist on protecting privacy.

In Germany, the deputy prime minister of Bavaria, Hubert Aiwanger forbids inquiries about his attitude toward vaccination. What will be the German government's attitude to the health passport à la francaise in the fall?