Question 13608 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Fabrice Brun draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the potential consequences for volunteer firefighters of the transposition of the European directive on working time (2003/88/EC). If this directive were to be transposed, it would have the consequence of assimilating the volunteer firefighter to a worker and therefore subjecting him, as recalled by a ruling of the CJEU of February 2018, to constraints particular circumstances calling into question the sustainability of the relief system due to the specificities and constraints inherent to the status of employee. This assimilation would result in the cumulative capping of the employee's work in his volunteer firefighter activity at 48 hours per week and even 44 hours on average quarterly. It would also imply the submission of the volunteer firefighter to constraint a daily safe rest between his working time and his voluntary on-call activity. If this directive were to be transposed with all these effects, the voluntary resource would consequently dry up or even disappear. This is why he asks him for the concrete measures and actions envisaged by the Government to preserve the volunteering of the firefighter and if he intends to plead with the European authorities in favor of a specific directive in order to preserve the French model and strengthen the commitment of volunteer firefighters, the keystone of the French civil security system.

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