French Government Will Adopt Bill Without Voting

Paris - The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, announced today to the Socialist group in the National Assembly he will invoke Article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass a labor reform bill, a parliamentary source informed.

This was communicated to local media by Olivier Faure, a spokesman for the group, a few hours before the text returns to the deputies for further consideration.

For several days many voices warn of the possibility that Valls again used the criticized article that allows to skip the examination of the document in the Assembly and its approval by decree, as in May when he interrupted the debate in the lower house of Parliament.

Deputy André Chassaigne of the Left Front launched a call to the socialists and environmentalists who reject the project to file a motion against the government.

The Senate approved on June 28 a hardened version of that plan.

By 185 votes in favor and 156 against, it was adopted a text in which the legal limit of 35 working hours per week was suppressed, adjustable to 39 if there is an agreement in each company.

Therefore, from Tuesday the document goes back to the Assembly, which in this country has the final say in legislative matters.

The start of the examination of the text today coincides a new day of mobilization throughout the country.

To the call of unions, thousands of protesters march in order to express their rejection of a plan that, they assure, gives greater powers to entrepreneurship in the organization of working time and layoffs.

Unions opposing the project organized a meeting tomorrow in Paris, announced the Force Ouvriere leader Jean-Claude Mailly.

The seven leaders of trade unions of workers and youth who fight the plan since early March, will speak on Wednesday at the event, said Mailly during a press conference.

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