Working time and labour law, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Sunday and night work: Call into question Sunday working authorisations
Direction of change: decrease, compared with current law.
The lever. Rules on shop opening and on working on Sundays or at night: exemptions, voluntary basis, pay premiums. Direction rule: ↑ Sunday or night work more widely permitted.
« Remettre en cause les autorisations de travail le dimanche »1Translation by the editorsCall into question Sunday working authorisations
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Sunday rest as a principle (Labour Code, Art. L3132-3), with permanent, sector-specific and geographical exemptions (tourist zones, mayor's Sundays), widened by Act No. 2015-990 of 6 August 2015.
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. No direct static budgetary effect.
- Légifrance, Code du travail, art. L3132-3 (version en vigueur depuis le 12 août 2009, loi n° 2009-974 du 10 août 2009), 2009-08-12: « Dans l'intérêt des salariés, le repos hebdomadaire est donné le dimanche. »
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.
- L’Avenir en commun (édition 2025), p. 34. Open the document at this page.
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