@Le Putsch : you're wrong. Aubry 1 and 2 limited strictly the amount of hours yearly done by a worker, with the monthly limit of 35 hours per week. This limits includes also the other pre-existing limiting laws, such as the max time in a day, of the max days without a day off. So yes, you could work like crazy on a day but no more than 10 hours, you could work crazy on a week, but no more than 48 hours (44 hours on a 3 week average), etc. It's ok to argue, but please get your info straight.
Another cultural difference : for example when you take the Mass turnpike, or the tunnel from the Logan airport in Boston you have a human cashier. On another example I dare you to find any human on the French ASF highway (off season)... Increasing the cost of work works against our own interest sometimes.
@Geoduck : "more people would have jobs", yes in theory... but then your cost of production is so high that you're not competitive enough and you don't have jobs anymore (passing to the 35-hour week was like a 10% hike on the payroll)! This solution of workload sharing is ok only if mandatory, such as in the 1950 USSR...
@Joe Jackson : we don't really have better work conditions (I worked in France and in the US). Workers are more protected though in lay offs, retirement and healthcare, but the system is highly in the red, so we're just making our children and grand-children pay for our confort...
So yes, you could work like crazy on a day but no more than 10 hours, you could work crazy on a week, but no more than 48 hours (44 hours on a 3 week average), etc.
It's ok to argue, but please get your info straight.
Another cultural difference : for example when you take the Mass turnpike, or the tunnel from the Logan airport in Boston you have a human cashier.
On another example I dare you to find any human on the French ASF highway (off season)... Increasing the cost of work works against our own interest sometimes.
who's going to dare eating that piece of art?
@Joe Jackson : we don't really have better work conditions (I worked in France and in the US). Workers are more protected though in lay offs, retirement and healthcare, but the system is highly in the red, so we're just making our children and grand-children pay for our confort...
whatever in xxl
After all, there can be only one McCloud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXi_0H_ZzM&NR=1
Too bad they're positionning the next Vette on a much more expensive bracket, it's going to loose its 'bang for the bucks' advantage...