[Excerpt: The new workplace rules restore the 39-hour week but allow overtime up to 48 hours "the maximum under EU law" while preserving employees' rights to work 35 hours if they choose.....Socialist MPs had argued that the 35-hour week helped create an additional 300,000 jobs by sharing out work among more people.....But UMP politicians said many more jobs were lost, as many companies stopped hiring workers because the costs became too high.]
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID=157605 Published: 24/3/2005, 08:21 (UAE) France abolishes its 35-hour week law Evening Standard Paris : France has scrapped its 35-hour week, leaving the Socialists' work experiment in tatters. The law was phased in by the left government between 1998 and 2000 in an attempt to cut unemployment. But five years later, the dream of sharing work to create more jobs has proved a spectacular failure. The hope was that firms would hire more staff to compensate for the shorter working week of others. But the jobless figure has actually risen by nearly one per cent since the 35-hour week was introduced. In January unemployment hit its highest level for five years and broke through the ten per cent level. Despite massive opposition from the unions, the right-wing UMP party won a vote to abolish the law, which it described as a "historic error that crippled the competitiveness of the French economy". The new workplace rules restore the 39-hour week but allow overtime up to 48 hours "the maximum under EU law" while preserving employees' rights to work 35 hours if they choose. Socialist MPs had argued that the 35-hour week helped create an additional 300,000 jobs by sharing out work among more people. But UMP politicians said many more jobs were lost, as many companies stopped hiring workers because the costs became too high. enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
