“We have the right to have common sense,” said Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet

The Minister responsible for Labor and Employment, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, calls for “common sense” Pending the application of the decree to protect building workers. “We have the right to have the right dose of pragmatism to say that, after certain temperatures, it is not reasonable to make people work on sites outside”She points to Wednesday June 18 on Franceinfo.

“We have the right to have common sense”still underlines the minister. For employers, there will be no obligations before July 1, the date of the application of the decree which strengthens the protection of construction workers from the construction industry. However, from this weekend, the temperatures announced are particularly high: Météo France plans up to 37 ° C on Sunday in Lyon or in Auxerre.

Can we then advance the implementation of this decree? “I don’t think so”replies the minister, who maintains that in the absence of obligations, “Pragmatic implementation can be advanced in good intelligence with companies and federations”. The decree, published in the Official Journal at the end of May, introduces into the labor code several measures related to the heat, such as adapting working hours, developing positions to amortize the accumulation of heat (with ventilation for example) or even suspend the painful tasks at the hottest hours.