Question 12489 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Sébastien Leclerc alerts the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the difficulty that a full transposition of the European directive on working hours (2003/88/EC) would constitute from the point of view of the commitment of volunteer firefighters to the fire and rescue services. He reminds him of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Community of February 2018 concerning a Belgian firefighter, a judgment equating the volunteer firefighter to a worker. The transposition of this European directive would lead to a cumulative cap on the work of employees in their volunteer firefighter activity at 48 hours per week and even 44 hours on average quarterly. Also, this would create for the volunteer firefighter the constraint of a daily safety rest between their working hours and their on-call activity. voluntary. The consequence would be immediate and brutal by destroying the potential for constraint by drying up the voluntary resource. In fact, an employee working 35 hours per week could only devote 13 hours per week to his or her commitment, which is incompatible with keeping on-call or having the necessary time to devote to training. He tells him of the urgency for France to carry out a political initiative with European authorities and asks it what its intentions are in this area.

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