Ain region of France. In 2009, the tribunal had to examine a complaint ' for a violation of the right to a family life' brought by the employees of the ED supermarket, fired for refusing to work on S undays, failure to observe working ho urs and insubordination . lheir lawyer p u t it this way: 'Since there is no case law dealing with working on Sundays, we'll base our case on a ruling of the final Court of Appeal which says that, for night work, the salaried employee needs to have signed an agreement.' She concl udes, ' I t will actually be particularly in teresting to see if the industrial tribunal recognizes the RIG HT TO A FAMILY LIFE as a higher principle than the right to paid work. ' 1
Day and night, all through the week and on Sundays, twenty-four hours a day, seven. days a week . . . that's a way of life that has no directions for use, no mode d'emploi, other than the repetition of repetitive processes. After the forced localization of the age of de-industrialization, forced dislocation is getting under way to the rhythm of a Progress now openly unnatural . Meanwhile, the case would seem tricky to plead as the 'right to refuse', to ' civil conscientious objection' , has scarcely any reality as a legal entity.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
1 La Croix, 16 October 2009.
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