Group Work:
Comparative Public Policies

Daveau Baptiste, Malotaux Maxime,
Martin Bernard, Van Mierlo Noémie

David Aubin
Marleen Brans

June 2010 Content 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………….….…… p. 3 2. Summary of the Directive concerning certain aspects of the organization of working time (93/104/CE from 23/11/1993)…………..…………………………… p. 3 3. Research Question and Hypothesis…………………………………………...…. p. 5 3.1 Research Question……………………………………...……………... p. 5 3.2 Hypothesis……………………………………………………………… p. 5 4. Research Design and Choice of Countries………………………………………. p. 8 5. Cases……………………………………………………………...…………………p. 9 5.1 The Netherlands……………………………………………………….. p. 9 5.2 Belgium…………………………………………………………..…… p. 11 5.3 France………………………………………………………………….p. 14 5.4 Luxemburg…………………………………………………………….p. 17 6. Test of Hypothesis……………………………………………………………….. p. 20 6.1 First one………………………………………………………………. p. 20 6.2 Second one……………………………………………………………. p. 21 7. Conclusion………………………………………………………….…………….. p. 22 8. References……………………………………………………...………………… p. 24 Appendix………………………………………………………….………………… p. 26

1.
Introduction

This work has the objective to evaluate how the directive about working time (and more generally about working conditions) was implemented in several countries, four in this case. Then the aim is to analyse the differences between those countries and see if the hypothesis we made explain them or not. Implementation means that the countries have to transpose the directive’s norms (the ones they don’t already