Word: workweek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patrons are furious over the government's plan to lower France's legal workweek to 35 hrs. from 39. From a central stage lighted up like a boxing ring, speaker after speaker denounced the legislation as "retrograde," "idiotic" and "criminal." "This law is antieconomic," thundered Ernest-Andre Seilliere, head of the main employers association. "Nobody can make more by working less!" Truer to form, the Confederation Generale du Travail, one of the country's largest labor unions, was leading tens of thousands of workers in protest marches across the country, demanding that the law even mandate the hiring...
...been unable to substantially lower the country's alarming unemployment rate, which is currently 11.3%. His Labor Minister, Martine Aubry, has argued that a shorter workweek would oblige companies to hire more people, thus dividing the employment pie into more slices...
...wonder many employers look with trepidation on the shortened workweek--though virtually nothing can stop it now. Following the passage of a preliminary law last June, 15,000 companies or sectors voluntarily negotiated 35-hr. accords with workers ahead of a year-end deadline. The second 35-hr. law, due to be voted on next week, gets specific on such matters as overtime, coffee breaks and the status of managers and minimum-wage employees. The latter must be paid 39 hrs.' salary for 35 hrs. of work--equivalent to an 11% raise--with the government making up the difference...
...expected that managed care would transform his life. Gunby's salary has dropped 10% in the past four years, and he's had to dip into his personal savings just to pay his staff. And while he's used to nights spent in the delivery room, he says his workweek now clocks in at nearly 100 hours--up to 20 of them, he estimates, spent haggling with insurance companies over approval for drugs and treatments for his patients. "I used to take time off, but now I work all my waking hours," laments Gunby. "I'm just being gobbled...
...phase of a start-up, precious capital must be allocated to marketing and sales rather than rent and salaries, which contribute only to the burn rate--the monthly running expenses of an Internet company ticking toward ipo or implosion. For new-media employees, the workday is 16 hours, the workweek seven days. "Cyberspace is rife with sweatshops," says Andrew Ross, director of the American Studies program at New York University. "The problem is, very few people realize it. The glamour of the technology industry carries a powerful mystique...