“If we take off the mask, we hope it’s for a long time, even definitively”, pleads on franceinfo, Bernard Cohen-Haddad, president of the CPME Paris Ile-de-France (Confederation of small and medium-sized enterprises), Sunday March 13. The obligation to wear a mask in schools, shops or businesses will be lifted on Monday. “We shouldn’t go back to ‘stop and go'”, he adds.
franceinfo: The end of wearing a mask, were you expecting it?
Bernard Cohen-Haddad: This is good news, as long as it lasts. We shouldn’t go back to “stop and go” policies, so if we take off the mask, we hope it’s for a long time, even permanently. This is good news for entrepreneurs, for our employees and also for consumers because today, in some places you have to wear it, including with the pass, it’s not always very clear. So we turn the page of this story to open another. We hope that will take us at least until the end of the year.
Are there any safeguards left?
The good practices that we have learned, including washing your hands, including the ventilation of the premises, even leaving the plexiglass in some, it does not cost much since we have already paid for them.
We must make sure to maintain, when possible, teleworking, which is now part of a reality in the world of work.
Bernard Cohen Haddadat franceinfo
But we need to return to a much more normal life, much more convivial. It’s the business world, it’s also the world of exchanges and purchases.
Companies can maintain the obligation to wear a mask in their internal regulations. Many will?
Many entrepreneurs and employees want to turn this page. However, let us be careful for our health, that of our family and that of our employees. I believe that those who have some fears should be able to wear the mask.