Word: patronat
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...independence; today 56% of a polling sample favor more sovereignty for Quebec. That sentiment has gained strength from the rise of a new French-speaking business class that in the past decade has largely replaced Quebec's old English-speaking elite. Says Ghislain Dufour, head of the Conseil du Patronat, the provincial chamber of commerce: "We're much more confident than we were ten years...
Business leaders have reacted enthusiastically to the Chirac revolution but have lately grown concerned that he is not moving fast enough to put his program in place. The Confederation Nationale du Patronat Francais, which represents 90% of France's major companies, has long argued that excessive state regulation was smothering the economy. Since 1980, according to C.N.P.F. President Yvon Gattaz, France's share of the world market for manufactured goods has dropped from 10.2% to 8.2%. The reasons for this decline, says Gattaz, include a "punitive" corporate tax and the substantial charges that companies must pay for their employees' social...
Said Alain Chevalier, managing director of Moet-Hennessy and spokesman for the Patronat, France's business lobby...
...social disruption that it causes they must restrain demand-and risk triggering a recession that would stir even more social unrest. Last week France went further than any other nation has gone to defuse that danger. At the urging of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the Patronat, or federation of French employers, agreed with the country's five major unions on a new plan that in effect will guarantee a full year's pay to any French worker laid off for reasons beyond a company's control...
...GISCARD D'ESTAING, 48, Finance Minister off and on for nine years, has directed France's fortunes with a finesse that, despite the current troubles, has not only endeared him to the patronat-the French business establishment-but at the same time won him the respect of the man in the bistro. An urbane and brilliant economist, he is the only presidential contender who currently holds national office. That helps Giscard by giving him regular public exposure, but it also thrusts him into the firing line on problems such as unemployment (only 1.9% last year but increasing...