Tuesday, June 20, 2006

70 years ago…

… the first paid-leaves in France appeared!

The paid-leaves are a major social innovation whose certain first steps had appeared in collective agreements in Germany at the beginning of the XXème century. This social conquest related to the advent of the Popular Front in France was constantly fought by employers. At the beginning of the 21st century it is still relatively not very widespread in the world.

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