“No to the abolition of public and non-working holidays specific to Alsace and Moselle”. In a petition from the Alsatian-Moselle Local Law Institutepublic officials deplore the new rules for harmonization of working hours which should cause them to lose two public holidays.
Since the civil service transformation law, in an article in force on January 1, 2022, the annual working time of civil service agents has been set at 1,607 hours throughout the national territory. But in addition to national public holidays, two days are added in application of 19th century Alsatian-Moselle law, for the Friday before Easter and the day after Christmas, December 26.
“Strongly attached” to local law and public holidays
Their “taking into account should result in an annual working time reduced to 1,593 hours”, underlines the Institute of Local Law in its petition, signed, as of Sunday, by more than 3,800 people. The two days “can certainly continue to be public holidays and non-working days, but must give rise to recovery of the fourteen hours concerned”, indicates the institute, which gives, according to it, “a new blow” to local law.
In June, Olivier Klein, then Minister Delegate for the City and Housing, was questioned on this subject by Senator (LR) for Bas-Rhin Elsa Schalk, who emphasized that “Alsatians are strongly attached” to their local law, why this annualization of working time constitutes “a real and unacceptable threat”.
The minister then responded that the article on the harmonization of working hours in the public service “obviously concerns the communities of Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin, which are, therefore, subject to the annual legal duration. of actual work of 1,607 hours”. These departments “cannot take advantage of the two non-working days mentioned to define an annual working time of less than 1,607 hours”, he added.
2023-12-03 13:56:32
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