[smoyer]

A French-owned company? Does anyone else see the irony in this? I'll add a link to an old article if I can find it, but I remember a small software company owner in France being fined when some of his workers exceeded 45 hours a week.

Edit:

Here are two articles from when the workweek in France was shortened but I haven't found the article I'm looking for yet. My point isn't really to denigrate France's laws but it would seem that these jobs were shipped out of the country so that more work could be expected from each employee.

http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_18/b3627192.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/25/european_working_pra...

[teamonkey]

How is that ironic? There's no reason why two offices of a multinational have to share the same working practices.

[m0wfo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek