Minister of the Civil Service Stanislas Guerini sent the administrations at the end of last week the framework letter establishing the system. The project was launched by the Prime Minister himself, during his general policy speech on January 30.
Under no circumstances should the experimentation with the four-day week lead to a questioning of the obligatory annual hourly volumes, set at 1,607 hours, the document says. “I'm afraid there will be ambiguity about the meaning of the measure. Let people think we want to reduce working hours,” Guerini says.