Here is an article published in the journal News in December 2006.
to work!
Our American neighbors work longer hours than the Japanese. They have one thing is certain.
by Jean-François Lisée
published in News of 15 December 2006
This course, Quebeckers work "infinitely less" than Americans. This is my former boss and friend Lucien Bouchard, who always says. It's true that we work much more than the British and the Swedes (the leftists), Dutch (florists), the Norwegians (uh ...), French (hedonists) and even the Germans (this that gives a little spooky). But hey, it is necessary, as they say, 'shine among the best, "and the source of this brilliant, it's sweat. To work as much as Americans, we must learn from them home and apply their methods.
uncap : Quebec set to 50 (is 48 in Europe) the maximum number of hours worked per week. Misery. United States: no limit. Think big! Excellent result: lots of overtime, including one in five made by the employee against her will. (A new Bush moreover eliminated the payment for those hours plus eight million employees by treating them simply as frames. Clever, no?)
Déplanchéier: Quebec requires employers to grant 10 days paid leave per year, 15 after five years. A call to laziness. In the States? No floor! The employer may decide not to give any leave. One in four has no access.
To privilege the work rather than family : Under the pretext of encouraging the family, the Quebec agrees long leave for mothers (one year to tickle-tickle instead of tightening the bolts!) In addition to sending checks. Only some Europeans are better. Our neighbors to the south, which are much more babies than we have found the right formula. They seem generous with 12 big weeks of leave per parent, but here's the trick: leave is unpaid. No money, no candy! It works: The average maternity leave is 10 days. And the trend is heavy: Parents Americans have 22 hours of leisure per week less than 30 years ago.
Motivate, motivate, motivate : There is no work ethic if the employee is not well motivated. And what better motivation than poverty! The figures indicate that only 5% of unemployed in the U.S. (rather than 8% for us) but 18% of poor (rather than 9% for us) make you confused? Because, there, we can work hard but still poor. Quebec governments, including that of Lucien Bouchard (bad advice), have consistently raised the minimum wage. The States, nay. It is frozen for nearly 10 years ($ 5.15), while the cost of living has increased 26%. It's not all. The median family income in the last five years has dropped by $ 2 000 - full recovery! Magnificent. Result: you have to work longer hours to stay afloat. Often, one job per person is no longer enough.
Désyndiquer: One of the great evils of Quebec, as everyone knows, is the deplorable unionization rate (40%). United States, it is more than 14%, falling fast. (Remember: their employers fire one in 20 workers trying to unionize. These dismissals are illegal. Fortunately, the state rarely prevails.) However, unionization is a terrible disincentive to longer working hours. A union member earns 13% more than non-unionized. It is worse for women: 35% more! It's completely demotivated. In addition, union helps to ensure that income inequality are lower in Quebec, when they explode in the United States. The results are indisputable: Commerce indicated in September that the U.S. share of national income going to wages (rather than profits) is the lowest for 77 years.
Follow this guide: The largest private employer, Wal-Mart, with 1.3 million employees in the United States, shows us the path. Salaries are low (6.35 per hour part-time, $ 9.00 per hour full time), the unions are persecuted. Good. But all is not rosy. Memos that have leaked to the media sounded the alarm: salaries and benefits tend to increase as these workers are traitors to the employer stroke of loyalty. Too long in the same job, they go in pay scales ... Fortunately, Wal-Mart has a plan: from 20% to 40% the proportion of part-time employees and, since August, impose a salary cap for more old. In some cases, prevent older employees sit on stools. They will finally understand.
we can see, put people to work requires a multifaceted effort, sustained, determined. Nothing to explain, I'm exhausted.
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