France limits Apple's working day, unlike US

[The Straight Story]

France limits Apple's working day, unlike US

In the US, Apple might be free to cater to its customers' needs 24-hours a day, but a French court has banned the computer giant from forcing its French staff to work at night, after it fell foul of a long-standing French restriction on working hours.

Apple, which has seven stores in France, was told by the court in Paris this week that it could not have its employees working between the hours of 9pm and 6am.

Trade unions greeted the decision as a victory. Eric Scherrer from the CFTC (French confederation of Christian workers) told AFP: “This shows the desire of the courts to respect our traditions about night-time work.

"We just ask that the law be respected," said Thomas Bordage from the SUD union (United Democratic Unitarians).

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/france-forbids-night-time-hours-for-apple-stores#.UUDsgjei2So

[MADem]

1. They'll probably just go to some kind of online ordering system.

Order online at night, pick it up in the morning--or something like that.

I'm amazed that there's a market for that stuff around the clock...!