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Political Discussion / In France, plan to put social distancing collars on workers 🤡
« on: January 19, 2021, 05:06:48 PM »
Union says plan to use devices to keep workers 2 metres apart is intrusive and infantilising
An Essity factory in Mannheim, Germany
Kim Willsher in Paris
Thu 14 Jan 2021 11.44 EST
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Workers at a French factory manufacturing toilet paper and other hygiene products are opposing plans to introduce Covid-19 “social distancing” alarms.
Managers say the devices, which beep, vibrate, flash or emit an alarm of up to 83 decibels if the wearer is less than 2 metres from a colleague, are being tested to protect workers’ health.
However, union representatives have accused bosses of “particularly intrusive behaviour … that infantilises workers” and say the system is “comparable to those that try to dissuade dogs from barking”.
“Are they treating staff like dogs?” the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT) union asked.
A spokesperson for Essity, a Swedish company producing soap, tissues and sanitary products, told AFP the alarms were being tested among 2,800 workers at its factory at Gien, in the Loire Valley.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/treated-like-dogs-row-over-social-distancing-alarms-at-french-factory
An Essity factory in Mannheim, Germany
Kim Willsher in Paris
Thu 14 Jan 2021 11.44 EST
54
Workers at a French factory manufacturing toilet paper and other hygiene products are opposing plans to introduce Covid-19 “social distancing” alarms.
Managers say the devices, which beep, vibrate, flash or emit an alarm of up to 83 decibels if the wearer is less than 2 metres from a colleague, are being tested to protect workers’ health.
However, union representatives have accused bosses of “particularly intrusive behaviour … that infantilises workers” and say the system is “comparable to those that try to dissuade dogs from barking”.
“Are they treating staff like dogs?” the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT) union asked.
A spokesperson for Essity, a Swedish company producing soap, tissues and sanitary products, told AFP the alarms were being tested among 2,800 workers at its factory at Gien, in the Loire Valley.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/treated-like-dogs-row-over-social-distancing-alarms-at-french-factory