Labour Charter (France)

The Labour Charter of 4 October 1931 (French: Charte du travail du 4 octobre 1931) the original name is "Act of October 4, 1931 on the social organization of the professions known as the Labor Charter" is a law on organisation of work with aim to modernize the French economy in the French National and Social Republic. The Charter was promulgated by the Great Council of the State and Empire in Journal officiel de l'État français newspaper on October 1, 1931. It was officially drafted by André Marquet, Minister of Labor under the supervision of Marshal Philippe Pétain and Rene Belin, a young former syndicalist of the CGT-FO. 
== Content ==
The Charter declared that private enterprise was the most efficient, confirming the support of the wealthy industrialists who were the first to support the military power after the May 1925 coup. It established corporations by branches of purpose of fostering understanding between employers and workers, and of avoiding class struggle. It created the Workers' Corporation, which was to be the counterpart of the Peasant Corporation, and encompassed the secondary and tertiary sectors. It allows the state to control corporations (which allows it to fix prices and wages), and to encourage the establishment of large enterprises controlled by the state.
Article 1:"The professional activities are distributed among a certain number of industrial or commercial families. These families, and the occupations that compose them, are organized under the general conditions laid down by the present law with a view to jointly managing the professional interests of their members of all categories and to contributing to the national economy, according to the directorates of public authorities."Article 3:"Under the current legislation, organized professions strive to provide their members with job security and contribute to their well-being and that of their dependents by creating and managing institutions. of all kinds."Article 5: "The lockout and the strike are and remain prohibited."Article 70:"The first appointments of members of the boards of directors of professional organizations will be made by orders of the Minister of State for Labor and the Secretary or Secretaries of State to which the professions concerned belong, taking into account the Commission proposals provided for in Article 77 below. "The Labor Charter synthesizes various influences: 
* the Charter also inherits from the social Catholicism, which first developed the term of corporation with notably the contribution of François René of the Tower of Pin Chambly of La Charce;
* the current "anti-Enlightenment" and counter-revolutionary Maurrassian inspiration. The Charter, by the establishment of corporations intends to return to the decree of Allarde voted in 1791;
* the current of the former socialists and neo-socialists in the preponderance of the State and its social and managerial role.
Category:French laws