Employment: Berlusconi vs Sarkozy

One of the main points, and most debated, of Sarkozy’s program was “work more to earn more”. In other words, destroy the Socialist approved 35 hours work week and deregulate the work hours more or less as in the USA. A real social progress ! But his plans in this area are not really moving ahead.

Berlusconi’s government just launched the idea of “work less and earn less” to increase employment. during this crisis time.

The French socialists had tried the “work less to earn the same” but the assessment of that law is so confused that one could not really make sense of the real impact of the law.

One thing is common for both Sarkozy and Berlusconi: they favor their friends, the industrialists, over the real people. And whatever their scheme is (work more or less or the same), the workers will pay and their friends will gain.

Nothing will change in spite of the crisis.