French Workweek
If the French succeed in reducing the workweek without reducing pay and benefits [“France’s 35-Hour Solution,” Nov. 23], perhaps the U.S. could solve the problem of too few entry-level jobs for welfare recipients by reducing the workweek for only minimum-wage jobs without reducing pay to provide the number of jobs required to fulfill the government’s mandate of welfare-to-work requirements.
Some government subsidy could reduce the burden on business, and within a short time we would have little or no unemployment. Of course, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan will then up the interest rate and throw people out of jobs.
SYLVIA SPECTOR
Gardena
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