FIVE-DAY WEEK
Introduction In France (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P A ) LONDON, June 6. France has formally introduced the five-day week and the half-hour lunch-break. According to the Paris edition of the “New York Herald Tribune.” the decision was' an affair of state. It was adopted by President de Gaulle and his ministers at their weekly Cabinet meeting. The reform affects 60,000 civil servants in Paris, who will work five days a week from 8.45 a.m. to 6 p.m., with half an hour for lunch.
Previously. they had worked five days and a half with their working days stretching to 7 p.m. The days had been broken, however, by lunch periods lasting as long as two and three hours.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31080, 8 June 1966, Page 13
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