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France to scrap 35-hour work week

You mean they might have to work FORTY hours? Oh, the inhumanity of it!

From Neal Boortz:

French lawmakers abolished the 35-hour work week yesterday. They passed a bill allowing employers to increase working hours an additional 220 hours a year, which puts the new work week closer to 40 hours. The former Socialist government had swept into power with the 35-hour work week policy, and what happened as a result should come as no surprise.

Working only 35 hours per week, France was not competitive. Unemployment is high there…10.1 percent. But wait…by reducing the work week, that was supposed to create millions of jobs! It did not. Just like raising the minimum wage here, manipulating the market did not produce the intended result.

Besides, anyone who only works 40 hours, much less 35, is not going to be particularly successful in life. Hard work is how you get ahead in this world, and that includes working a lot….not sitting around bashing America and eating buttered snails.

You do have to pity the French, though…..with a longer work week, they’re probably going to have to shower more than twice a month now.

Yikes. Did I really say that?

Yeah, Neal…you did. And I adore you for it! To quote Larry the Cable Guy: “That’s funny right there! I don’t care who you are, that’s just funny!”

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March 23, 2005 - Posted by | Uncategorized

1 Comment »

  1. Lets see how this policy change in France reverberates though the Socialist halls of the EU in Brussels. The EU government sets strict guidelines on labor and wages. France increasing the amount of hours they can work per week could interfere with the policies of the other member states thatset much lower hrs per wk limmits.

    I was saying to a friend who just returned from China and South Asia on Buisness, Old Europe is Dieing. Don’t look at the strength of the Euro. It’s artifically inflated by Brussels through monitary policy. Look at the social and tax policies of the EU. The EU through miromaniging the buisnesses in Europe will smother innovation and investment, and Social policy will bankrupt those governments as well.

    My money is on Russia, India, and the USA. Look who has the largest supply of natural resources, large innovative work forces and governmental policies that encourages investment.

    Comment by Anonymous | March 23, 2005


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