“No to the abolition of holidays and non-working days specific to Alsace and Moselle”: in a petition from the Alsatian-Moselle Institute of Local Law consulted on Sunday by AFP, public officials deplore the new rules for the harmonization of working time .
Since the law transforming the public service, in an article in force on January 1, 2022, the annual working day of public service agents is set at 1,607 hours throughout the national territory. But in addition to the national holidays, two days are added in application of the Alsatian-Moselle law of the 19th century: Good Friday before Easter and St. Stephen’s Day, the day after Christmas, December 26.
Its “taking into account should lead to a reduction of the annual working day to 1,593 hours,” underlines the Institute of Local Law in its petition, signed on Sunday by more than 3,500 people. The two days “can certainly continue to be holidays and non-working days, but must give rise to the recovery of the 14 hours in question”, indicates the institute, which represents, according to it, “a new blow” to local legislation.
“Real and unacceptable threat”
In June, Olivier Klein, then Minister Delegate for City and Housing, was questioned on this issue by Lower Rhine Senator (LR) Elsa Schalk, who stressed that “Alsatians are very attached” to their local legislation, why is this annualization of working time constitutes “a real and unacceptable threat.”
The minister then responded that the article on the harmonization of working time in the public service “obviously refers to the communities of Moselle, Lower Rhine and Upper Rhine, which are therefore subject to the legal annual duration of actual work of 1,607 hours”. These departments “cannot take advantage of the two non-working days mentioned to define an annual work day of less than 1,607 hours,” he added.
“After public service, when will it be the turn of the private sector?” asks the Institute of Local Law.
Source: BFM TV
