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French Workers Have a Minimum of Six Weeks Vacation Time
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It’s commonly admitted that France is among the countries where employees are the most lucky concerning paid leaves. Many people around the world know this fact and just take it for granted, assuming that countries have different regulations according to their culture and government and that’s the way it is.. some have to be the lucky bastards while others slave all their life in a less amenable country.
For your information, If you don’t know, French People benefit from 5 weeks of paid vacations and furthermore they benefit too from time off in lieu for people working more than the 35 hours normal week working time. In some companies, it can double your paid holidays time.
So people from others countries wonder.
But nobody can figure out the real ground reasons of this situation.
As a French myself, knowing perfectly after more than 40 years working as an employee the subtleties of the attitude of my fellow countrymen dealing with work, I am in position to tell you the truth.
1. We have more holidays because we do appreciate them
On the contrary to many others people, French people know what to do with their holidays. Whereas Japanese or Us citizens mostly get bored after two weeks, we could find ourselves plenty of decadent occupations to use spare time. Occupations such as eating (we can hold 5 hours long lunch, can you believe that ?), drinking, reading books, having a nap, visiting our wonderful country, playing cards or “pétanque”, holding long and fruitful conversations (especially with women) or just watching the day passing by.
We do have a certain sense for appreciating life in itself, with no need to be over-busy.
So we really want and need holidays, and that’s why we get so much of it.
2. We have more holidays because we never let our government go backwards concerning working time agreements
Unions in France are quite weak in comparison to others countries, and most French employees are not unionized.
Though, we are quick to get down in the streets and strike hard when it deals with holidays. We are stubborn about it.
During prosperous economic period governments are kind enough to redistribute productivity to workforce in terms of paid leaves and social advancement. But during harsh times, they just can’t go backwards.
Governments have tried so many times using so many ruses and law projects to try to increase working time in France. But they did not succeed. Partly because we are so hard in negotiation and partly because governments don’t want to. They know that increasing working time of those who works may lead to more unemployment, in a country where official unemployment rate is flirting with 10%. They don’t want to take the chance.
3. We have more holidays because we are more productive at work
It’s a well-known rule that the more time you have to do something, the less productive you get. You just take all the time available to do it, no matter the task and no matter if you have one hour or one year to do it. That’s a law of human nature.
In France especially, when someone has something to do, he uses all the time he was given to do it. Because he just doesn’t want to get more work for that period.
Bosses, managers and business owners had very well understood that rule. So they give their employees very little time to do stuffs that are to be done. And we will do it within the time given… just because we don’t want to do overtime nor miss some holidays. That’s why, France is one of the most productive country of the world.
And that’s why we deserve more holidays.
4. We have more holidays because we have the most beautiful women in the world
And this doesn’t need any comment. Just this point : in countries where women are ugly, you are more prone to work. That’s human nature once again.
http://www.desperate-freelancer.com/index.php?2008/04/21/81-why-do-french-people-have-so-much-holidays
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