Matignon Treaties (1936)
The Matignon agreements (French: Accords de Matignon ) in the narrower sense were agreements to avert a strike and to raise wages in general. In a broader sense, they also include the important new rights for French workers achieved in the days that followed.
The contracts were signed on the night of June 7th to 8th 1936 in the Hôtel Matignon , the seat of government, between the Representation of Entrepreneurs ( Confédération générale de la production française , CGPF), the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) and the French state closed. The unions were subsequently able to enforce the 40-hour week and two-week paid vacation. Their internal rights have also been strengthened. The National Assembly passed the Law on Paid Vacation on June 20, 1936 and the Law on Reduced Hours the following day.
Prime Minister at that time was Léon Blum ( Front popular ). The agreement was prepared by Jean-Baptiste Lebas , then Minister of Labor ( Ministre du Travail ). Blum had won the parliamentary elections on May 3, 1936 and had recently become France's first socialist prime minister.
The 1988 Matignon contracts
On June 26, 1988 treaties were signed, also known as accords de Matignon . They concerned the status of New Caledonia and require a vote on its possible independence from France.
Web links
- Les accords de Matignon 7 juin 1936 (full text) on a French government site
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on a French government website , accessed on August 6, 2014
- ^ Matthias Middell, Thomas Höpel: Introduction to French History 1500 - 1945. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3929031248 , p. 212.
- ^ French law database (French) , accessed on August 6, 2014
- ^ French law database (French) , accessed on August 6, 2014
- ↑ on June 6th he presented his cabinet to the National Assembly