Daimler wants to lose 35-hour workweek in France

Posted on 12-08-2015 at 16:19 by MauritsH – 85 Comments”

By means of financial incentives are factory workers persuaded to weekly for a couple of hours beforehand.

Since 15 years in France, a restriction as to the number of working hours per week. In 2000 the hustle and bustle of the Socialist Party, namely, a law which requires that 35 hours per week is enough. Meanwhile, crowds president Francois Hollande there is a law by which a longer work, but that’s true for shorter periods of time.

Such measures denominated of course, be careful the end of the 35-hour work week, but for Daimler, which is not fast enough. The parent company of Mercedes and Smart threatens the production of the latter, from France, to take away if the employees do not agree to a deal of $ 6 for each additional hour and a one-time bonus of € 1,000, reports Bloomberg.

Bosch did previously do something similar, with its French factory where solar panels and dieselsystemen be built, to ensure that the facility is not to the Czech republic would have to move. Also, General Motors stepped up the number of vacation days back in the French factory.

In september resumed Daimler the negotiations, then we will know more.