These municipalities which are still reluctant to spend 35 hours

It is a reform that some municipalities are still struggling to apply. As of January 1, as Les Échos reminds us, French municipalities and inter-municipal authorities will have to apply the 35 hours for all their employees, i.e. a working time of 1,607 hours per year. While most of them have already decided to implement this new reform, others are reluctant to do so. This is particularly the case for several large cities such as Grenoble or Lyon.

However, time is running out for these municipalities which will soon be outlawed. If they have not yet imposed the 35 weeklies, it is because they are trying to mitigate the impact of the reform on their staff, who will lose extra-legal days of leave. The city of Lyon thus explains having “made the choice to limit the negative effects of this law by protecting the most exposed agents” and will maintain “three extra-legal days” for its 5,000 agents on the posts are the most painful.

A “trusteeship”

If several latecomers should soon comply with the law, other municipalities remain resistant to 1.607 hours, especially in Val-de-Marne. According to Les Échos, the commune of Bonneuil-sur-Marne, headed by a Communist mayor, has “decided to resist and not to comply with the prefect’s injections”. According to the councilor, “this law is involved in the organization of working time in our municipality. However, in the Constitution, the principle of the free administration of local communities is enshrined. There, we reach a culmination of putting our communities under guardianship! “. Same story for Fontenay-sous-Bois, led by a Left Front mayor.

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These rebel communities are exposed to prosecution, specifies the Echoes the office of the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service. Amélie de Montchalin thus asked the prefects to “show firmness and support in the application of the law” except for those who “have demonstrated their willingness to move forward”. They will thus be “supported, but will have no litigation” in order to accelerate the transition.