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["K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Alan MacHett wrote:
->more time off, it is said.  The French recently lowered the work week to
->35 hours.  A working couple today still struggles to meet the same ends

If you did your research you'd know the French govt offered incentives to 
companies who decreased weekly hours in order to hire more workers and 
reduce the unemployment rate there. 

So, it's not like the French are getting a 40-hr week pay equivalent to a 
US salary - they're not - but they are getting jobs in the process. 

Of course, your company could opt not to cut weekly hours to 35 and you'd 
not receive the benefits (I believe mostly tax cuts). 

Cheers
KJ