Yeah, that’ll go down well with the populace I’ll bet. Cue rioting and fires.

Or, just tax the rich.

He's not a fucking centrist...

Yeah, let's not touch one cent of the 221 billion € each year given to large corporations, and instead stop celebrating the victory against Nazism.

Yes because all the recent evidence definitely doesn't suggest that productivity is increased with 4 day working weeks overall

Why? Because free time is good for people's mental and physical health. You know who's more productive than someone who doesn't have time or energy to improve their health? Someone who does!

Truly baffling stuff

American here... this plan implies that corporations are well taxed right. Cause if people work on a holiday, thier pay doesn't change I assume. That means only the increased output that leads to corporate income generates leading to improved tax revenue counts.
If the corporate tax rate is low like in the US, this would be like trying to fill the bathtub through a straw while the drain is open.

We did that in Denmark this year, cutting a holiday.

It turns out the whole thing was a calculator mistake, and also, the same faulty calculator was wrong about needing it in the first place.

Meanwhile, the rich and the corporations don't have to make any effort. There comes a time when they'll have to grab some bourgeois to set an example. The French have forgotten that the bourgeoisie, like dogs, must be trained, otherwise they'll do only shit

Read the article looking for his reasoning. Nada. Apparently he got a calculator out and thought, "We could be 0.54% more productive!"

For only two days, there is almost no productivity lost. People simply work a little harder to make up that time. There's also less work because no one else was working, but still, c'mon.

And God bless the French, they will burn Paris to the fucking ground for this. Meanwhile, in the U.S., congress just decimated what little public healthcare we have, and guys with Gadsden flag profile pics and handles like, "1776patriot," actively cheered them on.

OR, and hear me out on this one, you could TAX THE RICH.

Does this cheese eating surrender monkey want the French to riot? because this is how you get the French to riot.

They’ll have his head for this

I don't know about you guys but when we have a public holiday im normally out doing something. Spending money. So won't this just cancel out?

let the heads roll

Easter Monday

France may not be very religious any more, but it looks like they do still have a lot of religious holidays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_France

Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Assumption Day, All Saint's Day, Christmas Day, Saint Stephen's Day.