Activity therefore seems doomed to idle very

Two years after having been inducted "solidarity day" by the Raffarin Government following the heatwave of summer 2003, Monday of Pentecost, which falls this year on June 5 it is in a month continues to debate in the business. Will it really work The activity will not be reduced to shrinking Who will come to the Office "The employees include more little and employers try to dépatouiller hard", summarizes the National Association of HRD (ANDCP), who was interviewed for "Les Echos" 600 businesses on their approach to the problem.

This study reveals that, despite the possibility offered now distribute their own in the year seven additional hours of work planned, a small majority (56) would hold willy-nilly to the original rule and will work on the Monday of Pentecost. They include the majority of major groups, as Unilog, l ' Oréal, Adecco, AXA, PPR or IBM.

Heavy weight step

So, patterns are hardly illusions: "Many employees will be a day of rest, as schools will be closed," said Medef. The latter provokes the ire of the leaders, who see it as the symbol of "inconsistency" of the device. "Public administration is unemployed, and the private sector is still Turkey stuffing," summarizes Françoise Cocuelle, President of the CJD. Yesterday, the CFTC is violently against the fact that this day of solidarity "based almost exclusively on employees" and issued a call for a strike on June 5. The CGPME and Medef also point another stick in management wheel: the prohibition on heavy goods vehicles to circulate on the Monday of Pentecost, will complicate the task in such areas as fisheries, agri-food or quarrying. "Asked companies to continue their activity, but it prevents them to source and deliver" regularly point Pierre Nanterme, Chairman of the economics of the Medef.

Activity therefore seems doomed to idle very. Last year already, while almost all of the companies working on the Monday of Pentecost, Insee had estimated that the economic engine had turned this day than 50. This year, reveals the ANDCP study, 38 of employers have preferred to take the lead in imposing, "pragmatism", a collective day of RTT to their troops. "The past year, we have come to work but our customers were closed or disrupted." "I have learned the lesson and now we're doing for Christmas Eve or on Monday, August 14: I needed a day of RTT", explains Jean-René Boidron, CEO of Cosmobay Vectis Council (180 employees). It is also the option adopted by Procter & Gamble, Renault or even... the premier services. In SAP, this measure was even defined end of December under an agreement with the unions.

Day of feria

Society insurance (200 employees) Sada has also waived sacrificing his Monday on the altar of solidarity: cause, its head office is based in Nîmes, where Pentecost is day of feria. "It is sacred to the employees and the city is in a State that does not work," says the Executive. In return, employees earn seven overtime until June 30. The Palm of originality is however owned by the SNCF, which decided last year to let their Monday to these agents in exchange for 1 minute and 52 seconds, specifically, additional work on other days.

Lastly remain the employers who have cut short the problem by "offering" no counterpart as TF1 day. Or even Yachting creations (decoration of vessels), including the boss does not want to deprive its three employees in a "major Catholic feast." and a day traditionally family