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

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, K. Jo Garner wrote:
->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. 

I know it's bad form to reply to oneself, but correction: the 35 hour week 
was introduced without reduction of pay. 

INteresting article also on one company in Finland reduction of work day 
from 8 hrs to 6: "One unexpected saving was that time lost due to illness 
almost disappeared. Tony Carlyle reports that people felt better and their 
health improved. The same phenomenon was also apparent at the large 
Finnish tyre producer Nokia, who brought in a six-hour working day. Their 
staff suddenly stopped taking days off for illness altogether. "

see http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl07110.htm

also more info here:
http://www.french-lawyer.net/50-10_employment/50-20_workingtime.asp

Cheers
KJ