Agents of the Union for the collection of social security contributions and family allowances (Ursaff) in Picardy will be able to test the 36-hour week in four days for a year, an experiment on well-being at work, according to the minister delegate to Accounts Public Gabriel Attal, Tuesday in Opinion.
“In general, the French are in favor of more freedom in their organization, even if not everyone wants to accumulate 35 hours in four days,” Gabriel Attal told the newspaper. Opinionconfirming that Ursaff’s agents (who work 36 hours a week) in Picardy will be able, if they wish, to try the four-day week.
“More well-being at work”
“I think many French people today aspire to work in a different way,” said Gabriel Attal. “The 35-hour four-day week, which 10,000 French people are already experimenting with in a wide variety of economic sectors such as industrial recycling or IT, can mean less time spent on transport, less stress and ultimately more well-being at work”.
This announcement comes as the government faces a major mobilization against its pension reform, which plans to postpone the legal retirement age to 64 years. The unions demanded more demonstrators on Tuesday than on January 19, the first day of mobilization in the streets.
Source: BFM TV
