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The 35-hour working week is a measure adopted first in France, in February 2000, under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government. It was pushed by Minister of Labour Martine Aubry. The previous legal duration of the working week was 39 hours, which had been established by François Mitterrand, also a member of the Socialist Party. The 35-hour working week was in the Socialist Party's 1981 electoral program, titled 110 Propositions for France. The 35 hours was the legal standard limit, after which further working time was to be considered overtime. ==Rationale== The main stated objectives of the law were twofold: * To reduce unemployment and yield a better division of labor, in a context where some people work long hours while some others are unemployed. A 10.2% decrease in the hours extracted from each worker would, theoretically, require firms to hire correspondingly more workers, a remedy for unemployment. * To take advantage of improvements in productivity of modern society to give workers some more personal time to enhance quality of life. Another reason was that the Jospin government took advantage of the changes introduced with the 35-hour working week to relax other workforce legislation. ''(See working time for further discussion of the health and leisure-related reasons for limited work weeks.)'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「35-hour workweek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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