what are the effects of the 35 hour working week in france, on hospitals, police force and schools?
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What is the effect? Double digit unemployment. Lowered tax revenues. Jobs disappearing at an alarming rate. Combine this with socialized medicine and health care and a growing social program saddled with ridiculous deficits, and you can guess the effect it would have on hospitals, police and schools.\n\nAnd this is what people want for the US? I say, "No, thanks!"
216003
The impact would be huge and spread far beyond 100s of thousands of people just being sick and/or dying.\nIn attempts to stop the spread of the flu, schools and businesses would close as people began to stay home in attempts to isolate themselves and not get sick. That means no production, no shopping and no spending and the economy takes a big hit.\nAnd with many people staying in and businesses closed, you can count on a certain part of the population trying to take advantage and risking illness to loot, leading to massive insurance claims by businesses and shortages of key items as people begin to emerge from their exiles (be they self-imposed or government imposed).\nAll-in-all, it will be one big mess.
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"A record heat wave scorched Europe in August 2003, claiming an estimated 35,000 lives. In France alone, 14,802 people died from the searing temperatures—more than 19 times the death toll from the SARS epidemic worldwide. In the worst heat spell in decades, temperatures in France soared to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) and remained unusually high for two weeks."\n\nSee the source URL for more info.\n\nHope that helps!
725591
I'm a French young girl. Well, I suppose French young people's week-ends aren't that different from yours. They can do all sort of things, like going to the cinema, spending time with friends, going to parties or doing homework ! If you want to know what I am to do next week-end, I am to visit my grandmother and to do homework with friends. I know it's not that glamorous but is it my fault if teachers give us so much homework ?\n\nYou can do a poll on Yahoo answers France. It can give you more examples. Ask "Que font les jeunes Français le week-end ?" (you can ask in English if you want only answers in English)
712215
It depends on how fast they want to place people, and which area are you talking about. [officer, school safety, maintenance] - (my mom works with the NYPD re hiring.)  The time varies.
986384
They are supposed to get 8-9 hours.
343213
The biggest impact government had was that child labor was finally abolished. Also, government for the first time supported the formation of labor unions.
589571
at least 30 minutes or longer, 5 days a week.
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Check out the wikipedia.fr link below.
600472
I can't think of any. It's been tried and there's just too much \nburn-out. My kids were in an extended year program and it eventually reverted to a standard system over the 6 years they were int it. There were long 3 week breaks in October and March. Kids forget a lot in 3 weeks and the daycare was a nightmare. \n\nKids need time to blow off steam, so do adults. Americans work too much and don't take enough vacation. Most Europeans take all of August off of work and another 30 days scattered throughout the year. All this work is unhealthy, year round school would be just as unhealthy. We all need more time to just "be" rather than working for to acquire more "things".
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Pour effectuer une formation professionnelle en France, il faut obligatoirement avoir une autorisation de travail en France.
908406
1. Not really, because we have a very generous annual leave entitlement. The law gives us four weeks (20 working days for most office workers). A lot of people get 25 days and more for length of service. So when a calendar month has 22 or 23 working days, we are looking at a nation of workers who have over one month off every year, and at times we can largely choose. On top of that we have eight public holidays, and the three which can fall at weekends are protected by days in lieu. This then becomes 33 days (25+8), which is the equivalent of 1½ months out of 12, or one day in every eight.\n\n2. When you look at the USA, for example, what they have is rubbish (or should I say garbage?). It is something like this. They have lots of public holidays - I forget how many, but let's say 16. None of those days are protected so maybe 12 fall on weekdays. On top of that they get two weeks holiday (10 days). The result is they get a total of 22 working days which is the equivalent of 1 month out of 12, or one day in every twelve. I know which I find more attractive.\n\n3. Maybe we don't get the best overall leave, but I bet we are amongst the top nations of the world.
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Actually there is a nine-hour time difference between France and California, not eight hours as "thepenismightier" has suggested.\nYikes, I got a `thumbs down' for a correct answer!
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Usually end up getting sedated.\n\nDamn hospital workers.
333878
France, where there is around 10% unemployment and increased illegal immigration.  It's all union, they will never reform as long as there are unions.
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the effects that it caused.
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a three day weekend, less commuting and less traffic on the road = good.  Getting up earlier, less time to waste after work, being with the jerks at work for extra time = bad.