Question 14647 — security of goods and people

Summary

Mr. Patrice Verchère draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the future of the status of French volunteer firefighters. The emergency services fear the consequences of a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down in February 2018 which seriously threatens their organization by calling into question the special status of volunteering. Indeed, referring to the European directive on working time (2003/88/EC) of November 4, 2003, not transposed into French law, this judgment considers the on-call time of volunteer firefighters as working time, with the obligation of compensatory rest of 11 hours between two missions. If this directive were to be transposed, it would have the effect of assimilating the volunteer firefighter to a worker and therefore subjecting him to specific obligations calling into question the sustainability of the relief system due to the specificities and constraints inherent to the status of employee. If this directive were to be transposed in all its effects, volunteering would disappear, which would have catastrophic consequences for the organization of emergency relief in France. Currently, of the 246,700 active firefighters in France, 80% are volunteers, the others are professionals or soldiers. Also, he asks how the Government intends to protect the status of French volunteer firefighters.

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