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Hu?

  • Why lazyness? French workers fought for rights in work and won. Is our country less performant? Why so many foreign companies try to set plants here?
    I'm confused to see what you think about us. Yes I work 35 hours a week as a secretary and work more harder when needed, not being paid for your information. Do I have to work 50 hours a week and die working so that the rest of the world consider me as a "real worker"? A few years ago we worked 39 hours a week and our gouvernment voted so that the legal time is 35. It was established to reduce the unemployment. Good for us, workers, and those who had no jobs. Then it allowed more spare time and create an economic "boom" in the leisure Industry...
    We have legally 5 weeks holidays we have to take within the year, not free! It is taken on our salary ( x per cent of our pay ).Some of us, because of a lot of work, can't afford to take these 5 weeks. And renounce to the holidays the law gives them...and they paid for!
    Please do not succumb to clichés! French are not lazy and rude. Even if, like everywhere else in the world, some are...
    May I conclude for a word to Charlotte. You should be ashamed of such sentences to the cutter, worthy of a cockroach IQ....
    19 May 2008, 03:38 - Report Anonymous
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