BBC NEWS | World | Europe | French business slams work reform

More France-bashing! The French government wants a temporary relaxation of rules limiting work hours. The Socialists had put a cap of 35 hours a week, with only limited overtime. The new plan would allow enough overtime to bring it up to about 38 hours a week. The unions, of course, are against it, and businesses want the restrictions relaxed more and made permanent.

French unemployment had fallen -- fallen! -- to nine percent under the 35 hour week. But it's going up again. The French, of course, want to make everyone's economic system like theirs...