This article is updated following the decision of the Constitutional Court of 5 August that overturned the provision setting up a compensation scale for unfair dismissal (see comments below)
Sunday and night-time work. This is the socially symbolic element of the new law. A mayor will be able to authorize work for between 5 and 12 Sundays a year for every retail business (food retailers already benefit from a special system allowing them to open until 13.00 hrs.). Currently the mayor has the right to refuse Sunday working (for a maximum of 5 Sundays for each type of business).
On top of current derogations to Sunday work has been included Sunday working in ‘zones touristiques Internationales’ (ZTI) (International tourist areas) that are demarcated according to their international profile and the number of tourists visiting that live abroad.