Good Luck France
"The French voters want to keep the 35 hour labour week in a world where Indian engineers are willing to work 35 hours a day. Good Luck."
Fantastic quote from Thomas L. Friedman in New York Times about the bad timing of the French to lose the appetite for hard work, quoted in Dagens Nyheter 8/6 2005. I lived in France when they invented the 35 hour labour week in 2000. Only five years later they have to change it. Why not just let people work as little or as much as they want? Ever thought about that?
Fantastic quote from Thomas L. Friedman in New York Times about the bad timing of the French to lose the appetite for hard work, quoted in Dagens Nyheter 8/6 2005. I lived in France when they invented the 35 hour labour week in 2000. Only five years later they have to change it. Why not just let people work as little or as much as they want? Ever thought about that?
posted by Europea at 11:17 PM
2 Comments:
And ever thought of the power an employer has against the power of a worker? Letting people free to work "as much as they want" would mean that most workers would actually have to work much more than 35 hours a week... back to Manchester laisser-faire?
No I dont believe that people will be abused only because they have the freedom to choose how long they will work. As long as you have certain labour rights you should be able to decide for your self how much you work, and this should work in both directions of course. If you want to have more free time you can go down to 30 or 25 hours a week and if you on the opposite want to work more, you should be allowed to. France wasn't actually a laissez-faire country before you the 35-hour week was introduced, was it? And you are not going to be one now, just because you abolish the ill-functioning rule of 35-hour week. I dont believe so.
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