Réduction du temps de travail et conditions de vie au travail. Une comparaison industrie/services à partir de deux enquêtes sectorielles par questionnaire

Two recent surveys carried out amongst people employed within the service industry (banks and insurance companies) and industrial groups (paper making and graphical industry, local press group), highlight a higher proportion of employees within the service industry aware that RWT has come with the degradation of their working conditions and that they are generally less satisfied by the reduction of statutory working time. Even though the connexion between working time and working conditions may slightly differ depending on the type of industry, a key reason behind these diverging feelings may be found in the diverging flexibilities opposing on one side the employees of the service industry, subject to individual arbitrages taking the shape of polyvalency and unpaid work, and on the other industry workers, still protected by negociated collective agreements.