[rahrahrah]

France as usual leading in workers' rights.

[chimeracoder]

More like France catching up to the US. This is already the law in the US for hourly employees, which is what the new law in France is scoped to.

[mhurron]

That's funny. Most people who are working in a place where they would be pressured to continue doing work after hours are not paid hourly.

And then there is those long term contractors that are hourly but basically on a fixed number of hours per week who still are 'encouraged' to do what little extra is needed to get this project done so their contract can be renewed for the next one once they've shown they can be counted on.

[kalleboo]

I thought Germany already had this? Or was that just cultural rather than legal?

[Barrin92]

No legal framework for this here in Germany, but most companies tend to keep this stuff to a minimum, yes.