And yet Apple, Microsoft, SAP and Facebook have offices in Paris.
What's up with that then?
This shows that even giant US and German companies can work with French labor laws just fine otherwise they wouldn't be there.
So, to me, this whole current push in the west to drive down labor laws in the sake of "staying competitive" is just a big globalization scam on the working class and a backtrack of all the quality of life progress made from years of struggle by previous generations.
What are the size of those offices? (I don't know the answer to this question).
Every multinational company of a sufficient size is going to have "an office" in a major developed country.
The question to me is whether or not that office is employing more than the minimum required for the company to sell products in that country. If your "office" is just local sales and support, some lawyers for local legal issues, etc, I don't think that's a strong case.
Do they do substantial R&D there? Are there new products that come out developed by "Microsoft Paris"? Etc.
What's up with that then?
This shows that even giant US and German companies can work with French labor laws just fine otherwise they wouldn't be there.
So, to me, this whole current push in the west to drive down labor laws in the sake of "staying competitive" is just a big globalization scam on the working class and a backtrack of all the quality of life progress made from years of struggle by previous generations.
Good for France for not giving in!
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