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Sunday work: the Constitutional Council censored status

L e Constitutional Council censored, Thursday, Aug. 6, the special status provided for in the Paris law on Sunday working, because it deprived the Mayor the capital, Bertrand Delanoe, the power vested in the mayors of other municipalities, proposing extensions of opening. The wise men were seized by the deputies and senators of the opposition in late July, they will vote on the bill passed by Parliament.

The opposition feared in particular that in Paris, where the validation of the bill, "this is the prefect decides alone, without a motion of council or mayor's proposal without even that neither one nor the other is accessed, unlike all the other communes of France" .

The text presented by the government included the creation of CHIP ("perimeters exceptional consumer use") in urban areas with over one million inhabitants in Paris, Aix-Marseille and Lille. CHIP These are imposed by the warden at the request of council, not the mayor. The text also included the possibility of derogation from the common areas and classified "interest tourism ", but prevented the mayor of Paris to offer himself to the classification of a town or area. Bertrand Delanoe had seen in Paris except a" real denial of democracy ". He also welcomed the Constitutional Council's censure, which he believes "censored one of the most unfair aspects of this law" .

THE REST OF THE LAW VALIDATED

If he censored the special scheme provided for Paris, the Constitutional Council has not however affected to other contentious issues raised by the opposition, as the blatant inequality would be created between employees working on Sunday based on the geographical area where their employer works, commercial area or areas and tourist areas.

The Socialist Party has assured that despite a partial censorship, the law on Sunday working fell from "a societal choice that goes beyond a legal decision" . "We will continue to be with employees, unions and elected officials, who will not disappear at the foundation of our social model" , promised the President of the Socialist Group in the National Assembly, Jean- Marc Ayrault. Labour Minister, Xavier Darcos, has meanwhile welcomed the quasi-totality of the law, including the creation of CHIP, was approved by the sages. "In municipalities and tourist areas, the employees can now work in all shops under the rules clarified" , he said. As for Paris, "it will therefore [Mayor] take into account the issues of most tourists from the capital city which have already led to the classification of seven places in the city in tourist areas" .

The Monde.fr with AFP