1. Temps de travail en France

2. Durée légale du travail 35 hours each working week paid overtime annual paid leave sick leave maternity and paternity leave parental child-rearing leave parental presence leave individual training leave

3. La vie quotidienne Working hours: 8:30-9:30 to 17:30-19:00 An hour for lunch 20 minutes break for every 6 hours 11 consecutive hours/day for rest 8.5 hours for sleeping and over 2 hours for eating and drinking (2 times more than Americans)---OECD social indicators 2011 No work on Sunday

4. Le congé annuel payé Five weeks annual paid leave (excluding weekends) Work more than 35 hours a week, get more time off 11public holidays (jours fériés ) five weeks + dozen public holidays + weekend = 150 days = 5 months

5. Efficacité Le Plus Productif French people work an average of 1902 hours per year. Less compared to many middle eastern and asian countries. Rank 18 in terms of GDP per capita. Earn roughly 36,500 USD per person. Higher income than their asian and middle eastern peers.

6. Comparaison(1) Average annual hours actually worked per worker

7. Comparaison(2) average weekly working hours of full-time employees in Hong Kong is 49 hours (48 hours at most in france) According to the Price and Earnings Report 2012 conducted by UBS, ranked the fifth longest yearly working hours among 72 countries under study

8. Vocabulaire (1) La durée légale du travail effectif effective working hours Les heures supplémentaires overtime Le repos quotidien daily rest period

9. Vocabulaire (2) Le congé leave Les congés payés paid leave Les jours fériés public holidays