A body of the Council of Europe considered that France violates the European Social Charter by applying a “disproportionate” withholding of their salaries to certain officials when they go on strike.
One of the main French union confederations, the CGT, asked the European Committee of Social Rights to give its opinion on the so-called “thirtieth indivisible” rule.
This rule establishes that a public official is deprived of a full day’s salary, regardless of the number of hours he was on strike during that day.
This provision “represents a disproportionate withholding of the wages of the strikers and has a punitive nature”, stressed the European lawyers.
The CGT congratulated itself, in a statement, on this “beautiful victory” (…) of this period of social mobilization”.
A project to change the reforms in France is motivating a broad movement of contestation and social protest.
Source: TSF
