French senate adopted the law on the introduction of the principle of "minimum service" during strikes affecting non tourist terrestrial public transport on Thursday.
"The draft law project on social dialogue and continuity of public service in regular terrestrial transports for travelers," does not mention the term "minimum service," but gives leeway to the relevant authorities to define "serviceable priority routes in case of predictable disruption of traffic."
The law underscores President Nicolas Sarkozy's commitments made during the electoral campaigns. It aims at "forecasting more efficiently conflicts in terrestrial and railway transport companies by the development of social dialogue," and attempts to guarantee, in case of strikes, "a limited service known in advance by the population, and responding to their priority needs," affirms a report of a special commission charged with reviewing the law. The unions are criticizing this law accusing it of interfering with the right to strike.
The draft law project must be presented to the national assembly for debate.
The same law also stipulates that employees must declare, 48 hours in advance, their intention to take part in a strike, and within eight days of the strike, a secret ballot can be held to decide to continue or to abandon the srike. The non-payment of strike hours is clearly reaffirmed in this law.
Source: Xinhua
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