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Along with five weeks of annual leave, French employees get time off if they work more than 35 hours in a week. At the Hopital Vaugirard, a public hospital in central Paris, employees have accumulated more than 2 million days off in the past decade.
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French Dilemma: How To Burn Off All That Overtime? (via npr)

Apparently it’s also a right after you have two kids to have a shorter work week. Which is really good for family, but maybe not the economy. There is something wrong when the government is thinking about making elementary schools a year shorter (presumably because of funding). There are too many kids for that!

(via talkedtoomuchsaidtoolittle)

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    Apparently it’s also a right after you have two kids to have a shorter work week. Which is really good for family, but...
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    That’s what’s UP!
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    I’m guessing (haven’t done research) that their unemployment rate is a lot lower too. Think about it, if you took an...
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    The US needs to catch up.