Amélie de Montchalin wants to “restore a form of equality” by enforcing the 35-hour week for municipal employees “throughout the territory”

From January 1, 2022, municipal employees will have to work at least thirty-five hours per week. Amélie de Montchalin, Minister in charge of Transformation and Public Service, will ensure that “on the whole of the territory” this provision for “restore a form of equality”. “We have left the door open so that, city by city, profession by profession, the challenges of arduousness are taken into account” she assured, however, at the microphone of “Your political guest” on the franceinfo channel, Tuesday 23 November.

The Minister also assures that the “negotiation” to enforce this measure “is going well” with “80% of the municipalities”. Amélie de Montchalin a particularly deplored that some cities “make it into politics”, quoting the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.