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...government is, in reality, organizing the end of the 35-hour week," charged Fran?ois Chereque, head of the nation's largest union, Democratic Confederacy of French Labor, in Le Monde. "It's an affront, or a challenge. In any case, it's a provocation...
...Infuriated at being steamrolled on the work week after already having agreed to cooperate on negotiating overtime rules, unions have called for large protest strikes on June 17. But labor leaders aren't the only ones feeling hoodwinked on the issue. "The right is in the process of creating social policies of revenge against all the employees of this country," said Socialist legislator Henri Emmanuelli. Nor was dismayed reaction to Bertrand's text limited to the left of the political spectrum. Laurence Parisot, president of the Medef employer's organization which is signatory to the agreements with unions, also disagreed...
...less than 1%, well below the replacement fertility rate - and has multiplied the country's economic growth and brought more women into the workforce. Yet it has also had severe side effects. China faces a demographic nightmare. Within a decade, its rapidly aging population will suffer a severe labor shortage, and China will have millions of elderly people with few kids, and a Dickensian social system, to care for them. Away from the gleaming east coast, you are starting to see the new poor - aging men and women, often sick or disabled, picking for scraps of food around train stations...
...more immediate economic minefields to navigate. Inflation, for example, is surging in cities like Doha and Dubai, driving up the price of everything from food to office space. Nobody is hurt more than the Gulf's millions of ill-paid migrant workers, and this exacerbates the danger of growing labor unrest. One measure that Gulf countries are considering to dampen inflation: a dismantling of the peg that ties their currencies to the beleaguered U.S. dollar...
...remains one of the Senate’s leading members, having served for longer than all but two other individuals in that body’s history. The current chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, a former majority whip, and a former presidential candidate, he is widely respected on Capitol Hill. Known for his outspokenness in the Senate, he has earned a moniker as the chamber’s “liberal lion.” But he has also shown an assured pragmatism and a willingness to reach across the aisle—including...