This article seems biased, it states the normal french work week is close to 40h outside of RTT. What are RTT or Réduction du temps de Travail ? Additional days

This article seems biased, it states the normal french work week is close to 40h outside of RTT. What are RTT or Réduction du temps de Travail ? Additional days off you can take whenever corresponding to the time over 35h/week you worked. In other words it is expected to find that a regular work week "outside of RTT" to be close to 40h, and closer to 35h taking RTT into account. Now RTT is one mechanism that was put there to work around employers who didn't want to play along with the 35h week, as in have employees work less so you can hire a an additional employee. It is usually understood that employers didn't want play along from the get go, some even abused this to turn to permanent temporary workers thus increasing unemployment rate. Unemployment rate in France actually comes with a PR catch, the numbers reported usually are for category A of people registered as looking for a job which is only one of 5 categories ranging from A to B [1] which changed from earlier categories ranging from 1 to 5 till 1995 then went to 8 differents categories from 1995 to 2008 [2]. [1]: http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/F13240.xhtml http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/F13240.xhtml [2]: http://www.insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=definitions/categor-demandes-emploi-anpe.htm http://www.insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=definitions...