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15 years ago, a french socialist government passed a law that shortened work weeks from 40h to 35h. The result was a giant mess, the institutionalization of ext
by mohamedattahri 12y ago
15 years ago, a french socialist government passed a law that shortened work weeks from 40h to 35h. The result was a giant mess, the institutionalization of extra-hours, and absolutely no effect on unemployment.
I don't see how working less solves the real problem here: how to improve wealth distribution.
- wazoox 12y agoIt was made in such a way that it maximized productivity (at a steep price for factory workers), but it created a huge boom in employment. It had lots of bad sides, yes, because of all of the trade-offs that came with it. But a steep decline of the work-week is necessary at some point.
- nshepperd 12y agoAccording to the source I found (and posted above), the issue was that instead of actually working less, people ended up putting in unpaid overtime out of the office? (And having to check their work email at home, etc, which is definitely awful for health)
- conradfr 12y agoFalse, it's estimated to have effectively created around 400/500k jobs from a target of 700k, and is credited to a boom for the tourism industry (three days week-end). Of course there have been short and long term, good and bad side effects.
- mohamedattahri 12y agoNumbers of jobs created range from 100k to 500k depending on the source. You can see how this subject remains controversial to this day. The other important thing to factor in, is the general evolution of the unemployment rate in France since the introduction of the law. It makes it really easy to see that it the effect was limited, both in influence and over time.