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And if a French piano tuner works more than 35 hours a week, he or she can be arrested

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John Marks

In Reply to: RE: But wait - are you holding Khatia responsible for her piano's tuning? posted by Zarlino on November 15, 2024 at 17:20:42

Or at least, I have been told.

The concept is that if you are working more than 35 hours a week, you or your employers should hire more workers.

To work more than 35 hours a week is a violation of the Social Contract.

john

Follow Ups:

What a bunch of BS - Tre' 08:12:17 11/16/24 (2)
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
- https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/resources/article/2000/la (Open in New Window)
- And John's reply is? - jimbill 20:08:27 11/16/24 (1)
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  - The "Code de Travail" it seems has been evolving since I first read of it - John Marks 15:26:55 11/17/24 (0)
    I read about the French "Code de Travail" (Regulations re: Work) in the 1980s, when I had a subscription to National Review. They were highlighting that, according to their sources, French regulations strongly discouraged anyone's working more than 35 hours a week. As in, a self-employed sole proprietor THEORETICALLY was at risk that a nosy neighbor could rat him or her out. IIRC, was there not a SOCIALIST government in power then??? OUI! MITTERAND!
    
    Also, I spent 26 years as a Visiting Lecturer at Thomas More College in New Hampshire, and they had students like Mel Gibson's daughter from his first marriage, and a sprinkling of European kids from aristocratic families. The French aristo kids hated Mitterand.
    
    So, the situation of today looks like you can work more than 35 hours a week, but that is when Overtime kicks in. Also, except for some protected industries such as Hospitality, if your boss calls you over the weekend you can just ignore the call with no consequences--because instead of calling you to work on the weekend (or even answer a question), they should have hired additional staff!!!
    
    That's the kind of bureaucratic micro-management that keeps the French economy underperforming, consideration the resources at their disposal. But it does appear that the current regime is less bad in these respects than the Socialist government was.
    
    john
    
    BTW, I was accepted at Brown University as a potential Concentrator in French Literary Criticism (I bailed out, over Deconstructionism). I blush to say that even within the last year or so, a Haitian Lyft driver asked if I was from Paris, after I spoke French to him. #humblebrag

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