The rules that supervise work on May 1 soon to lighten? To comply with a request for bakers and florists, a bill backed by the Government plans to allow the companies already authorized to open on Sunday to be able to do so at each labor festival.
Out of discussion for the CGT, which is due to the fact that May 1 remains the only holiday necessarily unemployed for all employees (with exceptions). “This bill is a danger to workers, its objective is to fly again a holiday, since this bill would extend the work to almost all the work on May 1,” deplored the secretary general of the CGT Sophie Binet.
The Union manager fears “the same situation as that known for Sunday work.” “At the beginning, we are baits telling ourselves ‘we do not worry, it will be voluntary and with an increase’ and in the end (…) volunteering has disappeared since Sunday’s work is even integrated into the employee’s employment contract. And the increases are getting weaker,” he explained.
A quarter of employees work on weekends
Many French work on Sundays, and more widely on weekends. According to the latest figures communicated by Eurostat, more than one in four employees (25.6%) were taken to work on weekends in 2023. A proportion of 1.6 points in 10 years, but what makes France (26.2%). On the contrary, it is in Lithuania (3%), Poland (4.5%) and Hungary (6.6%) that the work on weekends is the least extended. The European average is 19.2%.
Autonomous workers work more frequently on weekends than employees. Therefore, 65.2% of those who have employees work on Saturday and/or Sunday in France. This is the second highest proportion in Europe, after Greece (70.4%). About half of the work on their own (50.2%) who do not have employees also work on weekends in France. On European scale, it is located in the agricultural and fishing sector that the work on weekends is the most common (49.5%), just in front of “service and sales activities” (48.9%).
What counterparts work on weekends?
Contrary to popular belief, work on weekends and more specifically on Sundays does not automatically give the duplication of its remuneration. The law does not impose any salary increase for employees working on Sundays, either occasionally or every week.
However, the collective agreement of the activity sector or the employment contract can provide a salary increase or compensatory rest. This is generally the case. According to a Dare study published in 2023, working on a Sunday for a four -week period provides an average of a net monthly salary of 10.6% for managers, 5.4% for workers, 4.6% for employees and 4.2% for intermediate professions.
On the other hand, Saturday’s work “does not provide, on average, a salary compensation,” observes the daring. Worse, “executives and employees who work at least one Saturday for a period of four weeks, even perceive less than those who do not, with equivalent characteristics (sex, age, etc.). An anomaly that is probably explained by” the unequal capacity to negotiate working hours, “according to Dares.
Source: BFM TV
