French court fines fine baker as "We did not take a day off in a week"

byVictor Rodríguez Iglesias

Long hours work is often a problem in Japan, due to overworkDeath from overworkHas become a social problem. In France in which workers are obliged to take appropriate holidays, it is talked about bread craftsmen being fined for fine as "I have kept working without closing the store even once a week".

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Popular tourist spot in North FranceRuzynie sur BalsMr. Cedric Vivre who runs a bakery called "Boo Lingerie de la" said that he continued working without stopping the store once a week in the summer of 2017, won 3,000 euros (about 400,000 yen) I was ordered to be fine. According to the local employment law enacted in 1994 and 2000, it is stipulated that except for special exceptions, bakers must take at least one week off.

Until 2016, Mr. Vivre applied for permission to "open a shop for one week only during the summer vacation period for tourists," and got permission from the authorities to open it. However, it seems that the official of the authorities rejected Mr. Vivre 's application only in 2017. Ultimately Mr. Bibre continued opening the bakery without leaving the bakery for a week in the vacation period as usual without obtaining the permission of the authority, and this time the fine was punished.

Rusinie sur Bals is a small town of about 2000 inhabitants, but nearby residents signed and filed a complaint to save Mr. Vivre, the town's bakery, and "Boulegalee de la" It is. Mayor Christian Blunl defended Mr. Vivre who was fined a fine and said, "It is necessary for business to open a shop for tourists who visited the town during the summer. There is nothing like that ", he said that he talks about newspaper interviews.

byMarilylle Soveran

Mr. Vivre said to the disposal, "I am not saying that I would like to open a shop all year round, but I just want to open the shop without having a break for the vacation period of the summer." . It seems that there is a measure to "have another store with a different business hours" as a way to prevent it from being cleared by keeping working for one week, but it can not be realized so easily.

The French television station also took up this situation and said, "There are rules of countryside in the countryside, as there are no shops in competitive areas, but only work as long as the customer is seeking service," at first glance I have comments that can be taken as well.

However, in France, "working not to take a day off for a week" is a minority. In the questionnaire that we went to the bread craftsman and the pastry chef 126 in Ovue to which Ruzynie sur Varus belongs at the end of 2017, there were many people who agreed with the law "take a day off once a week". Retail trade union in ParisCLIC-PEric Scheller of Mr. Eric Scherer said, "There is a rule that a baker or other occupation must be absent once a week, which is necessary and respected to protect both workers and employers We should comment. "