35 hours: "Roll up your sleeves"

Let those who are worried about the next world reassure themselves: it will look furiously like the world before. Will the whirlwind of the coronavirus leave our economy in tatters and a large number of bloodless companies? No question of working more, replies in advance the chorus of outraged to those who recall this truth of common sense: we will have to roll up our sleeves. The welfare state is bleeding white to save the jobs of millions of workers, but it is unworthy to ask them for the slightest effort in return. In a country where work is often seen as enslavement, we don't play around with RTTs.

This curious state of mind owes a lot to the 35-hour law, this deadly virus which has plagued our economy for twenty years and has deeply degraded the value of work. Our companies have left their competitiveness there, our industry its factories, our hospitals their organization. This bright idea, which the whole world rejected, was to create hundreds

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