“If they do not fit in the nails, it will be the court,” said Thursday the Minister of Transformation and Public Service.
Some 200 municipalities areunder surveillanceof the State for failure to apply the rules on working time in communities, set compulsorily at 35 hours per week or 1,607 hours per year since January 1, 2022, Amélie de Montchalin said Thursday. “200 municipalities are under surveillance, know it and have a few weeks to get into the nails“said the Minister of Transformation and Public Service on CNews.
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Concretely, the municipalities concerned are the subject of a free appeal from the competent prefect, detailed the ministry to AFP. This informal appeal is a procedure that allows communities to comply by avoiding recourse to justice.
Corn “if they don’t fit in the nails, it will be the court“, Amélie de Montchalin insisted Thursday, while the city of Paris and the communes of Seine-Saint-Denis have already been assigned to justice. “Today (Thursday), in the Val-de-Marne, the prefect will refer around twenty municipalities“reluctant to the application of 1607 hours, has also announced the minister.
Ongoing legal proceedings in Paris
Passed in 2019, the law on the transformation of the public service imposes the application of the 35-hour week in all communities, i.e. 1607 hours of effective work per year. This provision implies the abolition of derogatory regimes, more favorable on working time, in place in certain municipalities.
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On Monday, the administrative court of Montreuil ordered five communist mayors of Seine-Saint-Denis to apply the law on 35 hours within 40 days. A procedure is also still in progress around the application of the 35 hours for the agents of the city of Paris, certain provisions envisaged by the new work regulations of the personnel negotiated with the unions having been suspended in summary by justice. A judgment on the merits is due by the end of the first quarter of 2022.
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