The complaint, registered on 4 May 2009, relates to Articles 1 (the right to work), 2 (the right to just conditions of work), 3 (the right to safe and healthy working conditions), 4 (right to a fair remuneration), 20 (right to equal opportunities and equal treatment in matters of employment and occupation without discrimination on the grounds of sex), and 27 (right of workers with family responsibilities to equal opportunities and equal treatment), read alone or in conjunction with Article E (non discrimination), of the Revised Charter. The CFE-CGC claims that the new regulations on working time introduced in France on 20 August 2008 (Act N°2008-789) violate these provisions.

• Case document no. 1, Complaint registered at the Secretariat on 4 May 2009
• Case document no. 2, Written submissions by the Government on the merits (French only)
• Case document no. 3, Observations of the Government of Finland  

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible  on 29 June 2009.

The European Committee of Social Rights concluded that there was a violation of Articles 2§1and 4§2 of the Revised Charter and transmitted its report containing its  decision on the merits of the complaint to the Parties and to the Committee of Ministers on 13 September 2010.

The Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/ResChS(2011)5 on 6 April 2011.
 

 Decision on admissibility of the Complaint 56/2009

 Decision on the merits of the Complaint 56/2009

 Resolution ResChS(2011)5 of the Committee of Ministers on 6 April 2011