The government will allow working hours in certain sectors to be waived up to 60 hours a week, against 48 hours currently, and 46 hours against 44 hours on average over a 12-week period, the Labor Ministry said on Tuesday. .
These derogations, the principle of which was announced last weekend by the Minister of the Economy, could apply for example in "energy", "telecoms", "logistics", "transport" or still "food", said the entourage of the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud.
"For a limited time and in limited areas"
Currently, the effective weekly working time must not exceed the following two limits: "48 hours in the same week and 44 hours per week on average over a period of 12 consecutive weeks".
The government will take either "a decree" or "a decree" to change these two limits and allow derogations "for a limited period and in limited areas" to deal with the exceptional situation in the country.
There will be payment in "overtime" and compliance with "legal rest time", has taken care to specify the entourage of the minister. Sunday work may also be extended and compensatory rest between two work periods may be increased from 11 to 9 hours, "depending on the sector".
The entourage of Muriel Pénicaud also indicated that the government would quickly announce "incentives" for the agricultural sector, which will be faced with a shortage of labor to harvest strawberries and asparagus. "There will be ten times less posted workers than usual," the ministry said.
"Let people die exhausted at work?" "
Elected representatives of rebellious France have already posted their dissatisfaction on Twitter. “On the one hand, the confinement is lengthened and hardened, on the other hand, the working hours of the employees are extended, therefore their potential exposure to the virus, without serious protection. The injunction is more and more paradoxical and… unequal, ”reacted Eric Coquerel, MP LFI.
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"When we ask the government to list the sectors essential for everyone else to comply with the confinement order, it refuses. But when it comes to establishing this same list to considerably increase working time, he does it! Added his colleague Adrien Quattenens.
When the government was asked to list the sectors essential for everyone else to comply with the confinement directive, it refused. But when it comes to establishing this same list to considerably increase working time, he does it! pic.twitter.com/7lGtBZPjBT
- Adrien Quatennens (@AQuatennens) March 24, 2020
