Working time: justice complicates Anne Hidalgo Plans

The device designed not to increase working hours to the city of Paris is questioned by judges. The vote on the draft by the elected is delayed.

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may be rebuild. The building complex masterminded recent months by Anne Hidalgo and his team to formally apply the thirty-five hours for the Paris municipal officials without significantly increasing their actual working time is faltering and in danger of collapsing. Seized by the State, the Paris administrative court suspended in chambers, Monday 25 October, two key provisions of the new Regulation on the working time of 55,000 sanitation workers, teachers, gardeners, police and other officials of the City of Paris. In both cases, the court issues “serious doubts” about the legality of the measures concerned.

This suspension is certainly taken only temporarily, emergency, pending a substantive decision promised justice, “no later than the end of the first quarter of 2022”. In addition, the municipality intends to appeal the judgment referred. She hopes that the appeal court will decide within one month. For now, the interim decision nevertheless prevents Anne Hidalgo to implement the plan she had planned, and whose guidelines were approved by the City Council in July. An ambush over to the socialist mayor, as she presents her work in Paris as a serious pledge to run for the Elysee.

“Out of gender agents”

A sign of the difficulties caused by the court’s decision: the council has canceled catastrophe central technical committee in which politicians and the unions had to agree, Thursday, October 28, on the practical organization of work in some 350 bodies of different job, after months of negotiations. “We obviously could not vote on a project questioned by the judges,” said Dominique Basson, of the CFDT. Without technical committee last validation by the elected representatives of Paris, which was due in mid-November to the planned council will also be delayed. “We are moving toward a vote in December,” said the deputy Antoine Guillou human resources.

The calendar becomes tense. According to the law of August 2019 on the transformation of the public service, all local authorities must have the working time of their agents to thirty-five hours a week “at the latest” 1 st January 2022. in Paris, it means bypassing an average of 1552 hours 1607 hours per year. But one of the criticisms of the government, taken by the Administrative Court, already addresses the delay in Paris intends to enforce the law. In the scheme designed to City Hall, the new device would come into force in installments between January and September 2022, which seems to “ignore the law” and cause “a rupture of gender agents” notes court.

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