Florence DeBord tells us how the Constitutional right to strike has been “restricted by the increase in disciplinary power, by the intervention of special laws or by the practice of requisitions”, and that now, increasingly, judges question “the legitimacy or the merits” of a strike. Meanwhile, laws on minimum service, “allow the employer to sanction an employee who has not declared his intention to strike 48 hours before”. Then there is the State’s power to requisition workers, non-compliance with which is an “offense punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 euros”.