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Working time and labour law, Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Statutory working time: 32 h in arduous or night-work jobs, then by agreement; 35 h « rétablies » [“restored”]

Direction of change: decrease, compared with current law.

The lever. Weekly working time beyond which hours become overtime. It has been 35 hours since the Aubry laws. Direction rule: ↑ longer statutory working time.

« Rétablir immédiatement la durée légale hebdomadaire à 35 heures (en majorant les heures supplémentaires, cotisations incluses, à 25 % pour les 4 premières et 50 % au-delà), passer aux 32 heures dans les métiers pénibles ou de nuit, et favoriser leur généralisation par la négociation collective »1

Translation by the editorsImmediately restore the legal working week to 35 hours (with overtime paid at a premium, contributions included, of 25% for the first 4 hours and 50% beyond), move to 32 hours in arduous or night-work jobs, and encourage their extension to all through collective bargaining

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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. Statutory working time: 35 hours per week (Labour Code, Art. L3121-27), beyond which overtime applies.

Horizon. Not applicable.

Limits. Statically, the statutory working week has no direct cost for public finances. The effects (employment, wages, cost of public hiring at 32 hours, overtime) are behavioural. For the 32-hour week in the civil service or a 6th week of paid leave, no official costing has been read. The 2024 OFCE table cites €1.6bn per year (Montaigne 2022) for the 6th week, a distinct measure. To be treated as a dynamic effect, separately.

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. L’Avenir en commun, édition 2025 (La France insoumise), version 1 of 28 January 2025, p. 34. Open the document at this page.

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