Controversy over the baker forced to close one day a … – Boursorama

Controversy over the baker forced to close one day a … – Boursorama

A baker Landes which was open 7 days 7 was ordered to not respecting the weekly day of rest (AFP / File / Joel Saget)

Does A baker has the right to open 7 days 7? The controversy swelled Wednesday and divided the political class, while a craftsman of Landes was put on notice for not respecting the weekly rest day.

The story begins in the Landes, in St. Paul-lès-Dax. Stéphane Cazenave opened his bakery every day of the week for more than three years. This in spite of a prefectural decree of 1999 which imposes a weekly closing day.

The baker has been ordered by the Labour Inspectorate with the risk of the Administrative Tribunal input. And he was eventually forced from the beginning to close up shop once a week.

“This represents a net loss of 250,000 euros in revenue a year, I’m going to lay one or two employees “, he regrets.

A situation that starts to do well the fuss open debate on the Macron Act and Sunday work.

The former Prime Minister, François Fillon UMP quickly brought “full support” to the artisan. “That work can our country be considered an offense and passion of a craftsman and clamped should alert us to the absurdity of our system,” he wrote on his blog.

President Modem François Bayrou chained in a Wednesday morning: that “work is allowed those who want to work”

Faced with artisans and merchants, “there is very often such abuse”. according to former candidate for the Elysee. “It seems that the desire to create, to give rise to new jobs is frowned upon in France and sanctioned”

-. The day off stimulates competition? –

It was enough for the Minister of Agriculture and spokesman of the government denounced the “politician use” of this case

“I remember. it is a decree of 1999 and at the time, these orders are taken after negotiation, discussion with professionals, so the bakery, to find the necessary agreements and the necessary balances, “said . Stéphane Le Foll, during the proceedings of the Council of Ministers

“We have to be able – and this is the whole debate of Macron law, simplification is also underway – allow adaptations and especially open fields of discussion and negotiation that are clear to everyone, “he continued.

Lost amid the political games, bakers tried too to be heard, reiterating their commitment to non-working day in their profession.

“We are committed to the prefectural orders” that determine the days of closure of bakeries, “this is not to prevent people to work but it is to find balance, promote product quality, “responded to AFP Jean-Pierre Crouzet, Chairman of the National Confederation of the bakery.

” It There has long bakers working the weekend “and we must” level playing field, “he argued.

For him, if all the bakeries were open 7 days 7 it there would not mean more requests. We must therefore share the market. In addition, these closing days stimulate competition by allowing customers to test another bakery once a week, he said.

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