Sunday, November 23, 2008

Those members of the majority who do not want to work on Sunday

"Why continue to prevent those who want to work on Sunday?" asks Nicolas Sarkozy on 28 October. The Head of State then called on parliamentarians to take "now" and "without taboo" of a bill "that was prepared" in the matter. Despite minor caution, the draft law of the member Richard Mallié receives a rejection of a fringe of the majority. Around fifty members of the New Center and the UMP have even indirectly responded to the President in an appeal published Thursday on the website of the UMP elected Marc Le Fur (link here) entitled "Touche pas à mon Sunday" .

"We have a number of members to consider that Sunday is a day like no other, to consider a company, it also saw breathing, rhythm, appointment and it is an appointment you social on Sunday, "said UMP deputy Côtes-d'Armor. "There are exemptions that already exist and it is very good, you can possibly imagine things, but essentially we are committed to this social breathing and we believe that the arguments posed are not relevant. (... ) A young woman who lives alone with her children, how will she do to keep her children will require that the nursery opens again on Sunday by capillary action, we change society! "

"No way to work every English" (Xavier Bertrand)

The government wants the text to be debated in the National Assembly in early December. Aware that the subject ready to controversy, Richard Mallié defends proposed law, whose goal is "not to generalize Sunday work" but to review legislation "another century" - it dates from 1906 - by introducing "a protective framework for employees." All retail outlets could open on Sunday in the so-called "tourist" and grocery stores could open up to 13 hours anywhere in France. In addition, the score of "areas of outstanding commercial attractiveness" agglomerations of more than one million inhabitants (Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille) could open on the proposal of the municipal council and after consulting the chairman of agglomeration.

Finally, the text creates a "right of refusal" for employees, which can not be dismissed for that reason. Except collective agreement, the Sunday work would be entitled to compensatory rest and at least twice the normal return. Clearly, work on Sundays, if this can not be mandatory, allows the minimum to win twice more. "We want to ease the work of Sunday, but there is no question of them work all French people," says Labor Minister Xavier Bertrand on Friday. "In tourist areas, today nobody recognizes them, we must clarify work on Sundays."

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