A new stage of reform of the
labor market was opened Wednesday, November 4th. An important step, even
symbolic, as it is to build the labor code of the 21st century. Manuel Valls
presented the guidelines of this reform at a press conference at Matignon. Everyone
agrees that our labor law has become illegible. So illegible and confused that
small businesses are not proficient in the rules and that employees often
unaware of their rights.
Recalled Manuel Valls Wednesday
November 4, during a press conference, attended by the Minister of Labor,
Employment, Vocational Training and Social Dialogue, Myriam El Khomri. The
Prime Minister presented the guidelines for the reform of the labor code, whose
ambition is twofold.
Allow companies to be better able
to adapt to their environment, to be more competitive and thus create more
wealth and more jobs. Better protect employees by offering more appropriate
guarantees to changes in our economy.
This readability effort has a
clear objective: to enable employees and organizations to better identify their
rights and the opportunities available to them to adapt to their own
constraints. Readability is the condition of the appropriation of flexibilities
that may exist.
The proposals are the result of
discussions conducted by Myriam El Khomri with the social partners, based on
the work of Jean Denis Combrexelle but also illuminated by the contributions of
other actors, such as Robert Badinter and Antoine Lyon Caen. They will be a
bill, presented in early 2016, whose preparation will also be in dialogue with
the social partners, following three main orientations.
A mission of defining the
principles entrusted to Robert Badinter and meet as soon this month
personalities whose expertise and authority are unanimously recognized, will
issue its finding by January. They will be included in the bill that will be
presented in early 2016. From there, a labor law overhaul commission will be
set up. It was she who organize rewriting code with a maturity of two years.
Composed of judges and qualified individuals lawyers, academics, social relations
practitioners - it will report regularly on its work to the social partners.
35 hours week: The law shall
guarantee the legal duration of working time. But without waiting for 2016, the
new architecture will be applied to the specific area of working time. He had
to speed on this, because the changes in the labor market, particularly with
the rise of digital, render the increasingly blurred boundaries between
personal and professional lives, said Manuel Valls. The law will continue to
ensure principles, including that of the legal 35 hours per week and payment
for overtime beyond.