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France: Law adopted on unions, bargaining and working time

A law reforming the rules on trade union representativeness and collective bargaining, and making the statutory 35-hour working week more flexible, was adopted on 20 August 2008 and published in the Official Journal on the following day.

The law on the “renewal of industrial democracy and the reform of working time” had been proposed by the government in June 2008.