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Old 19-06-2015, 18:50   #12
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Re: Productivity in France

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Originally Posted by Taf View Post
So employers are extremely motivated to employ only the best, and that usually means those that will work their asses off. And that high productivity means the bosses need fewer workers, so their unemployment rate is much higher that ours (around 10% I believe).
Now that's a very interesting point. Unintended consequences again

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The French A.N.P.E. (Agence National Pour l'Emploi) makes our D.W.P. look like amateurs with hearts of gold. They will send you on courses, interim work placement, obligatory job placement... and if you don't pull your weight and get stuck in it will badly hurt you financially. They didn't count those on courses. etc. as employed, but I have heard that they now do in most cases (Socialist tweaking of the figures).
The plot thickens
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