May 30, 2008
Pave: Subject To Change IV
Le jour 381 de Sarko
Like the weather, if you don't like government policy in France just wait a news cycle for something different.
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Il y aura toujours une durée hebdomadaire du travail en France et elle sera de 35 heures.
[There will always be a fixed working week and it will be 35 hours.]
Sarko,
Président de la République,
table-setting his confuse-a-cat strategy on RTL radio
LOIRET 26 mai 2008 (La Croix)
Yesterday's confuse-a-cat.
FRANCE TO KEEP 35-HOUR WORKING WEEK
PARIS May 28, 2008 (The Australian) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday backed down on a major plank of his industrial reform policy, undertaking to maintain the 35-hour work week a year after vowing to scrap it.... The reassurance contradicts comments Mr Sarkozy made earlier this year in which he called the 35-hour week - brought in by a Socialist government 10 years ago - an "economic catastrophe".
The French leader went to the election last year promising economic reform and an end to the 35-hour week.
Just last week, the head of his ruling Union for a Popular Movement party, Patrick Devedjian, announced in unambiguous language that his party was"forcefully requesting the definitive dismantlement of the 35-hour week".
Today's confuse-a-cat.
SARKOZY MOVES TO END FRANCE'S 35-HOUR WORKWEEK
PARIS May 30, 2008 (WSJ) - President Nicolas Sarkozy's government presented a draft bill that would effectively scrap the 35-hour workweek, one of France's sacred cows. French labor unions were caught off guard by the move and were meeting late Thursday to decide whether to call for strikes.
Anywhere but France this is blatant flip-floppery. In France it is nuance.
PFFT (What is this?): Confuse-a-syndicat 4½ | Rayonnement français ½? 0? 5?
Posted by Damian at May 30, 2008 11:45 PM
