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7/22/06 at 4:10pm

Matt
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Originally Posted by RJman

In France, if you get fired, you get unemployment benefits in the value of EIGHTY PERCENT of your former salary for a set period of time (two years or so). That's supposed to tide you over while you look for new work. After that runs out, whatever social benefits you are entitled to are, in general, much smaller since they're not a percentage of what you were earning but a set amount. Ernest's unemployment ran out last year.

--RJfre@k

so if you were management of a major corporation then, pulling say 500k a year...you get fired for whatever reason, the govt will pay you 400k a year for two years to "tide you over"? wow - sweet. no wonder you moved. RJ, dude, get fired!

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7/23/06 at 9:57am

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Ken, are you talking to yourself in the third person again?

It could be that KP thought that he was posting under his Comolli login, but........ Ooooops

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7/23/06 at 1:34pm

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so if you were management of a major corporation then, pulling say 500k a year...you get fired for whatever reason, the govt will pay you 400k a year for two years to "tide you over"?

wow - sweet. no wonder you moved. RJ, dude, get fired!

I talked about the French unemployment system today with some native friends. Apparently the system is no longer this way - but 30 years ago, one could receive 90% of one's former salary as unemployment for a time. Nowadays and at least for the last ten years, unemployment benefits are 56% of the former salary earned and are "degressif" -- the percentage diminishes over time as an incentive to look for new work. After they run out (not sure how long this takes), the only benefit available is a minimum subsistence benefit of around 500 or 600 euros a month. That's just two pairs of Dunheel cufflinks.