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  • A former labour minister best known for creating the 35-hour week, Ms Aubry has her work cut out convincing those who run small businesses that France's future lies in more control, not less of it.

    France: Socialist sunrise | Editorial 2011

  • Also sensible was his announcement that, if a majority of a business's employees agree to it, employers may opt out of France's 35-hour workweek.

    Sarkozy, Take Two 2012

  • So much for one of the few pro-growth promises the French president kept: the near-abolition of the 35-hour workweek.

    France Gets Buffetted 2011

  • And it's not like I'm suggesting that higher taxes would subsidize European-style 35-hour workweeks or early retirement but rather reduce financial stress by lowering the cost of college and home ownership.

    Jane White: Rethinking Reaganomics: Why We Need Warren and Bill to Pay More Taxes Jane White 2010

  • And it's not like I'm suggesting that higher taxes would subsidize European-style 35-hour workweeks or early retirement but rather reduce financial stress by lowering the cost of college and home ownership.

    Jane White: Rethinking Reaganomics: Why We Need Warren and Bill to Pay More Taxes Jane White 2010

  • A former labour minister best known for creating the 35-hour week, Ms Aubry has her work cut out convincing those who run small businesses that France's future lies in more control, not less of it.

    France: Socialist sunrise | Editorial 2011

  • The second round, to be held Oct. 16, will pit Martine Aubry—creator of France's 35-hour work week a decade ago and mayor of Lille, a town in northern France—against François Hollande, a former Socialist Party chief and head of the Corrèze, a largely depopulated region in central France.

    French Socialists Head for Runoff Gabriele Parussini 2011

  • Worked 35-hour weeks as a unionized employee at A&P grocery store while attending Iona.

    Terex CEO Ron DeFeo says bailout doesn't go far enough 2009

  • The party says on its website that longtime party chief Hollande won 39% of the vote and Aubry, author of France's 35-hour work week law, 30% of the vote based on about 977,000 ballots counted.

    Hollande, Aubry Top French Socialist Primary Associated Press 2011

  • And it's not like I'm suggesting that higher taxes would subsidize European-style 35-hour workweeks or early retirement but rather reduce financial stress by lowering the cost of college and home ownership.

    Jane White: Rethinking Reaganomics: Why We Need Warren and Bill to Pay More Taxes Jane White 2010

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