Word: laboral
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...Pierre Boulle’s screenplay, the bridge on the River Kwai is built by the Japanese during World War II, using British prisoners as a labor force. The British colonel who commands the prisoners eventually falls in love with the bridge. He builds it better than the Japanese could have done without him, as a symbol of what can be accomplished by British “soldiers, not slaves.” So infatuated is he with his wooden love-child that he nearly frustrates an attempt by Allied commandoes to blow...
...next year, the law was expanded to cover federal funding from the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services (HHS). (For Harvard, HHS is all important as the vast majority of the University’s $400 million in annual federal funding is channeled through the National Institutes of Health, a part...
...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...
...struck from the books to give companies freedom to work longer hours at lower cost. Earlier in May, UMP president Patrick Devedjian expressed the longing of virtually all French conservatives by "forcefully requesting the definitive dismantlement of the 35-hour week". But in the face of ferocious reaction by labor leaders to that appeal and the applause it drew from UMP members, other conservatives were forced to quash the very suggestion. Indeed, given the political explosiveness of the topic, Sarkozy on Friday reiterated that "the length of the work week will remain 35 hours in France - something that is clear...