Paris Stands By 35-hour Week Reform Plans Despite Mass Demos

servihoo.com ^ | 2/7/05 | AFP

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[LauraleeBraswell]

France's centre-right government-

Wait is that comparable to our centre or right?

[traderrob6]

Lazy, unproductive and totally lacking initiative. Anyone wonder why they have been irrelevent on the world stage for decades

[rellimpank]

---another major part of the European Union, along with Germany (with the highest unemployment rate since WW 2) which is purportedly about to bury us---

[Paleo Conservative]

The mandatory 35-hour week, the key social change of the last Socialist administration, has come under attack by President Jacques Chirac's centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UPM) for raising labour costs and exacerbating unemployment, which stands at around 10 percent.

Of course "centre-right" in France means to the left of the DemocRAT party in California or Massachusetts.

[stevem]

More than half a million people marched through 100 towns and cities on Saturday, according to the organisers -- an alliance of trade unions backed by the opposition Socialist Party. Police put the overall figure at 285,000.

They were leaning more toward the 15 hour option.

[traderrob6]

Naw, their centre right would be akin to our Dean progressives. Of course their centre left would be akin to followers of Joseph Stalin or Mao Tse-Tung

[Paleo Conservative]

Naw, their centre right would be akin to our Dean progressives. Of course their centre left would be akin to followers of Joseph Stalin or Mao Tse-Tung

Their hard left would be similar to Pol Pot.

[neutrality]

I suppose they are fiscal conservatives, but socially probably fairly liberal

[international american]

I do 35 in 3 days.......

[groanup]

Someone told me if you lose your job in France you get 90% of your salary for up to two years. I don't know if he's right but I bet he's close. These are spoiled government teat suckers of the worst kind. One mention that their free ride might be taken down a notch and they hit they streets in their little temper tantrum.

[international american]

Per month:)

[traderrob6]

French fiscal conservative is an oxymoron similar to French military strategy

[ArmyBratproud]

Lazy Frenchman are crying buckets!

If they really want them to freak out....install a plan of merit raises.

[international american]

I am a lazy bum, and it is my God given right to shop!!

[Captain Peter Blood]

This is the reason France and Europe as whole are going down the drain. The unemployment rate is a chronic 10 to 15% on the Continent. Taxes and Business regulations are suffocating any new business coming on line or employment, also the crippling Social Programs are killing them along with a negative birth rate. Yet these morons refuse to change and get rid of some Socialism for a little more Capitalism to ease their burdens.
When the Muslims fianlly take over totally and all of Europe is an Islamic Republic will they finally see the light after it's to late?????????????????

[dljordan]

Jeez, I wish I could just work 40 hrs.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Indignant DUmmies, defending the French worker's "right" to sloth and unproductivity: here . :)

[theFIRMbss]

>Paris Stands By 35-hour Week

"Work?! Thirty-five hours!? Like, are you mad?! That's more than a whole day per week!!

[Zack Nguyen]

I don't quite get this. Private sector employees in France can't work past 35 hours right now? Is it actually against the law?