Coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19) – Vulnerable people: the new list of criteria from 12 November

The most vulnerable employees can be placed in partial employment and public employees on special leave (ASA) on medical prescription under 3 conditions.

First, you must be in one of these situations:

• Be 65 and older;
• Having a cardiovascular history (ATCD): complicated arterial hypertension (with cardiac, renal and vascular complications), ATCD of cerebrovascular accident or coronary artery disease, heart surgery, NYHA stage III or IV heart failure;
• Having unbalanced diabetes or having complications
• They have a chronic respiratory disease susceptible to decompensation during a viral infection: obstructive pulmonary disease, severe asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, sleep apnea syndrome, cystic fibrosis in particular;
• Has chronic renal failure on dialysis;
• Having active cancer being treated (excluding hormone therapy)
• You have obesity (body mass index (BMI)> 30 kgm²);
• Have at least one Child Pugh stage B cirrhosis;
• Have major sickle cell syndrome or have a history of splenectomy
• Being in the third trimester of pregnancy;
• Having congenital or acquired immunosuppression:
  • drug: anticancer chemotherapy, immunosuppressive treatment, biotherapy and / or corticosteroid therapy at an immunosuppressive dose;
  • uncontrolled or CD4 3 HIV infection;
  • following a solid organ transplant or hematopoietic stem cell transplant;
  • linked to a malignant hemopathy during treatment.

A new criterion has been added since 12 November 2020:

• You have motor neuron disease, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, quadriplegia or hemiplegia, primary brain neoplasms, progressive cerebellar disease or a rare disease.

Second, to be considered vulnerable, you don’t have to be able to telework completely.

Thirdly, you must not be able to benefit from the following enhanced protection measures:

• Isolation of the workplace, in particular by providing an individual office or, if not, its arrangement, to limit the risk of exposure as much as possible, in particular by adapting working hours or putting in place material protection;
• Respect, in the workplace and in any place frequented by the person during their professional activity, of the gestures of reinforced barrier (reinforced hand hygiene, systematically wearing a surgical mask when it is not possible to be respected or in a closed environment, with this mask changed at least every 4 hours and before this period if it is wet or damp);
• No or limited workstation sharing;
• Cleaning and disinfection of the workstation and of the surfaces touched by the person at least at the beginning and at the end of the shift, particularly when this work is shared;
• Adjustment of arrival and departure times and any other business trips, taking into account the means of transport used by the person, in order to avoid peak hours;
• Supply by the employer of surgical masks in sufficient numbers to cover journeys between home and workplace when the person uses collective transport.

If you meet these 3 conditions (pathology or situation on the list, use of impossible teleworking and insufficient protection measures), you must then give your employer a certificate of isolation drawn up by your doctor.