Ugict-CGT’s survey showed that over 63% of those questioned worked more than 40 hours per week, with the French legal working week set at 35 hours. A quarter of respondents even admitted to working 45 hours per week.

Not only are they overworked, but they are also worried about the direction of their company. Two-thirds (66%) of employees do not feel consulted by their employers regarding their strategy and practices, with over half of them (52%) feeling that these decisions are completely contradictory to their own beliefs. This has led 58% of respondents wishing that they had the right to refuse their higher-ups’ directives.

the company i’ve been working for and i are going to part ways soon and i’m not trying to save it because of these two reasons and also because i want a union job.

up until now i had assumed that this was an anglosphere thing since my colleagues who put in this sort of effort were mostly from the english commonwealth or the us or lived there.

i know that macron’s decision to incorporate the far right into his government instead of the groups that the french people voted for proves that france is no longer a independence minded nation; but i think that they’re still the closest thing to a first world country with real worker rights and if the most privileged workers are faring worse than their american counterparts, i have to wonder what the near future of employment looks like for all of us.