dsula wrote:I have a better idea. Make a 2 hour work week, it creates even more jobs.
35 hours is a typical non-sense proposel from people who never operated a business and in general have no idea. Loss of productivity is significant. You want to make it CHEAPER to hire people, not more expensive.
Why France's 35 Hour Week Won't Die
Call it the law that just won't die. Six months after France's ruling Conservatives voted to gut the nation's famous 35-hour work week, anecdotal evidence suggests most companies are sticking with it.
But most bosses appear to have stuck with the shorter week, to avoid disputes with leisure-loving employees, and, it seems, as a useful tool in dealing with the growing economic downturn.
More crucially, perhaps, the 35-hour week's survival owes a lot to other measures the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy has passed as part of its mantra of "work more to earn more." Key to that is a provision introduced in late 2007 that makes overtime more profitable to both companies and employers by waving taxes and social charges. The ironic result: bosses and workers now find they can have their 35-hour cake and eat 25% bonus time too.
babystrangeloop wrote:What a fantasy! So many people who really produce things at white collar jobs and only have employment agreements to work 40 hours a week work much, much longer than that in order to fulfill deliverables.
Novus wrote:The MATH doesn't lie.
prajeshbhat wrote:And for those who actually run businesses-
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1873245,00.htmlWhy France's 35 Hour Week Won't Die
Call it the law that just won't die. Six months after France's ruling Conservatives voted to gut the nation's famous 35-hour work week, anecdotal evidence suggests most companies are sticking with it.
But most bosses appear to have stuck with the shorter week, to avoid disputes with leisure-loving employees, and, it seems, as a useful tool in dealing with the growing economic downturn.
More crucially, perhaps, the 35-hour week's survival owes a lot to other measures the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy has passed as part of its mantra of "work more to earn more." Key to that is a provision introduced in late 2007 that makes overtime more profitable to both companies and employers by waving taxes and social charges. The ironic result: bosses and workers now find they can have their 35-hour cake and eat 25% bonus time too.
dsula wrote:In the light of peakoil you can expect to have to work MUCH MUCH more to be able to feed yourself. Not less.
Fishman wrote:Aaahh, the pursuit of unicorns. Novus, this is why the present administration has failed so miserably. They run the show with a bunch of academicians who know nothing of reality, never ran a company. Has this social experiment been run before? Why yes, it has, and it has failed. See France/ Germany, US etc. If you like this idea, please move to France, (PS no jobs there )
Just so you understand, you do this to a business, they employ folks for fewer hours, fewer benefits, less income coming in the worker. They will also hire fewer workers because of the overhead. You did poorly at math, terribly at history, perhaps an economics course might help. Be careful, liberal minds tend to explode in economics classes, gets messy.
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