Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
in [Europe]
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From: Mxsmanic on 21 Jul 2006 05:08 An IHT article on French vacation: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/19/features/blume.php -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 21 Jul 2006 05:09 Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > What about 1947 or 1976 ? They were single years, not decades. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Jim Ley on 21 Jul 2006 05:48 On 20 Jul 2006 18:08:16 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >And think about that for a minute. That much vacation for a new >employee? That's a high cost. That is one of the reasons that >unemployment is higher in the EU than it is in the US. So while new >workers in the EU get more vacation than new workers in the US, more >workers iin the EU can't get jobs, period. Enforced vacation. Except of course unemployment is not higher in many countries of the EU, in fact it's lower. The reason why certain countries in the EU have high unemployment is becuase they have protectionist governments and are restricted in their ability to become competive due to the Euro, it's got nothing to do with holiday entitlement. Jim.
From: Jim Ley on 21 Jul 2006 05:50 On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:40:12 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Tchiowa writes: > >> Of course it does. If you pay someone 12 months pay for 11 months work >> then your productivity suffers. > >You mistake mere presence for productivity. In most skilled jobs, >productivity is largely uncorrelated with presence. What matters is >how much you get for the money you pay, not the number of hours your >employees spend sitting in an office. Indeed, Tchiowa seems to be living in a world of very low skilled jobs which essentially any one can do with similar productivity - perhaps counting boxes as they pass on a conveyor belt. The rich countries in the world have few of these jobs. Jim.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 21 Jul 2006 05:59
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:00:20 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> They need education, not air-con. > >There isn't any type of education that can replace air conditioning. Education can replace it in terms of saving lives. It's cheaper too. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |