Sunday June 30, 2024 is the day when voters are invited to cast their ballots for their representatives in the French National Assembly. Many French people will be at home with their families, but not everyone. A certain number of citizens work on Sundays, and have not necessarily set up a proxy to allow someone else to vote in their place. But there's nothing to stop them exercising their civic right: they're perfectly entitled to take an hour off work to vote, and their employer can't object.
It can be difficult to vote if you work on a Sunday, as polling stations open at 8am and close at 7pm in most towns and cities, i.e. during office hours. But for some years now, a law has allowed you to cast your ballot, even if your polling station is far from your work.
This law n°2015-990 of August 6, 2015, known as the Macron Law, was passed when the latter was still Minister of the Economy, during François Hollande's term of office. It states that employers must allow their employees who work at weekends to be able to vote in"national and local elections when these take place on Sundays" and must even"take all necessary measures" to do so.
These measures can be a reorganization of the schedule, advanced or shortened working hours, a dedicated voting break during the day, a shift... However, an employee's absence from work means that he or she will not be paid for the hour he or she is away voting, since this is not actual working time.
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