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(See workweek for further discussion of the health and leisure-related reasons for many nations to consider limited workweeks important.)
An ancillary purpose of the reduction in hours was to improve quality of life by allowing French workers more leisure, but the primary purpose was redistribution of labor. A 10.2% decrease in the hours extracted from each worker would, theoretically, require firms to hire correspondingly more workers, a remedy for unemployment.
The 35-hour workweek is highly controversial in France.
Critics of the 35-hour workweek have argued that it has failed to serve its purpose because an increase in recruitment has not happened. According to them, firms, being stubbornly against hiring new workers, have instead simply increased per-hour production quotas. French firms avoid hiring new workers in general because the French political system makes it difficult to lay off workers during a poor economic period.
The French political administration has also blamed the deaths during the heat wave of AugustSee August (album) for the album by Eric Clapton. August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. Named in honor of Augustus Caesar. The month reputedly has 31 days because Augustus wanted as many days as Julius Caesar's Ju 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U on the 35-hour workweek: hospitals were inadequately staffed to handle the number of patients.
Other professionals who work for international companies or over the Internet complain that the 35-hour workweek hamstrings their productivity and puts them at a distinct disadvantage compared to their counterparts in countries that do not have such policies.
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