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Law Waldeck Rousseau Unions

Waldeck-Rousseau Law, named after the interior minister Liberal Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau , which made her vote, is a law passed on French 21 March 1884. It is the first to allow unions in France, by repealing the Le Chapelier law. This text covered all the professional groups and not just trade unions.

This law is only a first step towards freedom of association, by the strict guidelines it sets for the creation and organization of unions. Moreover, unions are prohibited in the public service. It follows the laws of the Second Empire in 1864 abolishing the crime coalition.