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Surprised that the comments here are from the perspective of an employee considering moving to France when the purpose of the visa is to attract founders. Tr
by netman21 10y ago
Surprised that the comments here are from the perspective of an employee considering moving to France when the purpose of the visa is to attract founders. Try founding a tech company when you are paying all those employment taxes for everyone you hire. And then they are only allowed to work 35 hours a week. I helped a startup during the dot com boom in Paris. They said the "employment police" would stake out their building to ensure nobody worked too long. And good luck holding on to anything if you sell. Sorry France. Nice try.
- renaudg 10y ago>> And then they are only allowed to work 35 hours a week. They said the "employment police" would stake out their building to ensure nobody worked too long. This is a myth. 35 hours a week is a reference figure (likely to go the way of the dodo with the next president btw) after which overtime regulations are triggered for some types of employees (mostly blue collar). White collar hours aren't regulated at all in the same way, they're just supposed to get some extra days off ("RTT") since that law came in force. It's true the "employment police" in France can indeed be full of nasty anti-business commies (a famous hard left politician in France spent his whole career there), but it's a total urban legend they'd be staking out a building looking for overtimers.