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...days into the heat wave. Raffarin has personally drawn fire for refusing to return from an alpine vacation until Aug. 14 - the day before temperatures began to cool. He has since made a ham-handed attempt to deflect criticism by blaming understaffed hospitals on the 35-hour workweek passed by the previous government - and then scolding detractors for politicizing the tragedy. But at least Raffarin bothered to address the issue; Chirac said nothing until his solemn but less-than-contrite appearance late last week. Geriatric workers hope the news cycle and cooler temperatures don't distract people from the real...
...miss the intense connection that is cultivated between people with 35 hour workweek in season,” Schaffer says. “But instead of this intense connection in a football setting, I will hopefully have these type of relationships in a different context...
Ford's next act came in September 1926, when the company announced the five-day workweek. As he noted in his company's Ford News in October, "Just as the eight-hour day opened our way to prosperity in America, so the five-day workweek will open our way to still greater prosperity ... It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost time or a class privilege." The five-day week, he figured, would encourage industrial workers to vacation and shop on Saturday. Before long, manufacturers all over the world followed...
...years, pet-supply executive Andrew King spent about a third of his workweek trapped on the Long Island Expressway, famed for its snail-paced traffic. He felt he had no choice. As president of Kings Cages, a birdcage manufacturer based in Farmingdale, N.Y., about 40 miles east of Manhattan, King has to visit customers scattered all around New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But one day last spring, as he was spending all morning driving to Oxford, Conn., it suddenly occurred to him that if he had flown from a municipal airport near his business, he would have reached...
...chair upholsterer on his days off. The shift system of two nine-hour days followed by two 15-hour nights and then four days off allows many firefighters to have second jobs; critics say this weakens their claim of not making enough money. Collis replies that their workweek still averages out at 42 hours. At week's end, the FBU and the government were each urging the other to end the stalemate, raising hopes that the strike might not run its full course. Collis and his mates said they could hold out until Prescott blinked, but their confidence...