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At the office, beware of personal files and other sensitive information. Contrary to popular belief, an employer is absolutely the right to see the entire hard disk of the workstation of its employees, without their permission. The collected files (images or pornographic films mostly, but also documentary evidence of contacts with competitors or disparaging the company from third parties) can then be used as evidence for a dismissal. One exception: personal files.

But how does one determine that a file is personal? The Court of Cassation rendered several decisions to this effect in recent years. The latest, released Thursday, says that a file stored in a folder named "My Documents" can not, despite its name, be considered personal, and can be accessed freely by the superior of the employee concerned.  

Appoint his case with his initials or his name is not enough either. The Supreme Court issued two decisions in 2009 explaining that the names were not enough to identify these records as private.

Personal files can be viewed in the presence of the employee

To ensure that certain files can not be accessed without his knowledge by his employer, the employee must create a folder named "Personal" quick pay day loan. For added security, better also add "Staff" in the name of files in the folder.

But beware! If the employer does not have the right to inspect documents "Personal" without asking permission of his employee, this does not mean it does not look right. The Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that the opening of these files should be done in the presence of the employee, or following a phone call to warn him, "unless a particular event or risk justifying the deprivation of life private. "

Better to be cautious by not leaving anything to rest on his workstation outside its business documents. If a sensitive document must pass through your desktop, upload it to a support belonging to you, as an external hard drive, USB drive or smartphone … staff.

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Thousands of people started marching Tuesday across France to say no to them according to the austerity imposed by the European Union and call for a genuine policy of growth to five days before the second round of presidential elections.

Nearly 290 processions are announced by the CGT, one in the afternoon in Paris, where walkers will have been preceded by a National Front demonstration and where they will parade during a political rally organized by the outgoing president.

The inter-union (CFDT, CGT, FSU, UNSA and Solidaires), promises that there will be no political message on the banners of the first parades in May-but the CGT, unlike other organizations, called for "beat Nicolas Sarkozy."

In Marseille, about 20,000 people, according to unions, protested for a parade more social than political. "This gives it a special flavor, but we do not mean our demands immediate demands in the pocket," said the delegate county of the CGT, Mireille Chessa. The banner head behind which all the unions, with the exception of FO, marched, summed up this attitude. "Against the austerity policies, workers united for social progress" could be read. Fralib employees, who for nearly two years to oppose the closure of the last site in France to make the teas Elephant, opened the procession.

Holland in Nevers to honor Beregovoy

About 1500 people marched in 4500 in Strasbourg and Mulhouse, according to a statement made on site by Reuters, a significant interest in Alsace, while the region is in middle of spring break and the CFDT was not involved, as organization, in the event.  

In Strasbourg, where employees of the truck manufacturer Caddie, in receivership, opened the parade, only a few slogans directly recalled the presidential election, as "If you're against Sarkozy, clap your hands", sung by the Orchestra of the CGT.

In Paris, delegations from the Socialist Party and the Left Front should remain in the rear of the parade as not to hinder the trade unionists and Francois Hollande has chosen to honor Nevers (Nièvre) to Pierre Beregovoy, the Prime Minister Francois Mitterrand, who s 'committed suicide there exactly 19 years.

Union leaders see as a "provocation" of Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to hold its own gathering on the job after reporting since the beginning of the campaign "these intermediate bodies" that are the unions.

"The first is May-workers and anyone else," said Francois Chereque Tuesday on BFM TV. The secretary general of the CFDT, which does not give instructions to vote, said the speech of Nicolas Sarkozy on the job has become "unbearable." "Every time there was a takeover in the history of politics on this holiday (1-May-Ed) was derived in a context of undemocratic," he said Monday in an interview published by Liberation .

Thibault argues for a social Europe

The secretary general of the CGT, Bernard Thibault, has instead confirmed he called to vote for Francois Hollande. "The CGT called to fight the current president," he said on Europe 1. "I am surprised that some are surprised that a union of employees can have an opinion about the issues of a presidential election."

"It's from the social balance sheet, economic and president of his intentions – among his first, he wants to, as the employers claimed, a reform of the definition of termination for economic reasons," that this position has was taken, he said.

The SGC requires a minimum wage to 1,700 euros per month and expects Francois Hollande, who has promised a big meeting with the social partners if elected on May 6 before deciding, he goes in that direction very quickly. Bernard Thibault believes that the austerity measures introduced in the European Union led the latter to the disaster and calls for a social Europe.  

To better themselves as "unifier" Nicolas Sarkozy faced with a "who wants to divide", the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande has sent a letter to leaders of the five confederations. He reiterated his promise to do major players in the next five years if they win.

(With Reuters)

 

European capitals have asked the Commission to bone up on the fight against unemployment, but many probably not appreciate his advice: the lowering of wage costs to the free movement of labor across the EU through a minimum wage "modular", Brussels risk of setting fire to the powder to the left and right.

The document, which will be released Wednesday, could also ignite the French debate around employment and Europe, with five days of the first round of presidential elections. As Nicolas Sarkozy, Brussels appears for a lower wage cost burden on businesses. It is a "privileged instrument to strengthen the labor supply," says the latest version of the text obtained by Le Figaro. The Commission suggests alternative resources as VAT, taxes "green" and property taxes.

Another proposal leading risks in contrast to spark outcry among conservatives, echoing an old controversy about the "Polish plumber". This is to overcome the final obstacles to a single labor market in Europe, the U.S. model. "Labour mobility is not sufficient in the EU (…) In order to exploit all the possibilities, it is crucial to ensure a balance between demand and supply of jobs" at European level , the authors note.

Red cloth

On this front, the Commission advances two tracks dangerously undermined. The first is the end of restrictions on employment of Romanians and Bulgarians, programmed by treaty by the end of 2013 but refused by nine countries, including France. The second is the opening of national public employment to all EU nationals, except as validated by the sovereignty of Justice.

Finally, Brussels waving a red rag in front of the entire European left: that of a national minimum wage that could be differentiated by industry professional, provides a way she, "to support the provision of employment ". The authors do not specify the model. But they ensure that wage floors should be discussed "in consultation with unions and depending on economic developments."

The contribution of the Commission is only prospective. It is unlikely that the communication "Towards an employment-intensive growth 'lead in the state. But it looks quite controversial for the twenty-seven Commissioners wish to review it one last time with the college in full force Wednesday in Strasbourg. Against the backdrop of elections in France and Greece, José Manuel Barroso will leave the public presentation in Hungarian Laszlo Andor, Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs.

For Brussels, it is clear that the challenge of unemployment requires bold solutions. Lagging behind the emerging powers but also the U.S., the EU has lost 4.5 million net new jobs since 2008. Since January, a second recession in three years has increased the average unemployment rate above 10%. And restarted at the same time a growth debate that nobody has yet really convincing answer

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A helicopter chartered by Total departed Aberdeen on Thursday at 10:35 local time (11:35 Paris) for an initial inspection of the gas leak on the platform Elgin, evacuated March 26. The operation had been delayed so far because of the east wind that beat down the cloud of gas to the landing deck. The winter-like conditions in the north of Scotland where snow whitened the countryside around Aberdeen since the beginning of the week does not facilitate the task.

After about an hour's flight, the helicopter had to land on the platform "PUQ", the residential area of ​​Elgin, 240 km east of Aberdeen in the North Sea. The eight men are to achieve the production platform of Elgin by a walkway 90 meters long. Among them, several employees of the Texas company Wild Well Control, which is illustrated in extinguishing oil wells in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion of 1991 and during the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Specialists will inspect the wellhead from which escape G4 still about 200,000 m3 of gas per day and measure the pressure in the concentric rings that form the wells. Elgin on the platform, all electricity was cut and the flare died out for lack of gas to be burned. The team's visit remains risky, any heat source is likely to cause a gas explosion.

The reconnaissance team must prepare the ground for the operation of plugging the well. In the coming days or next week, ships carrying "sludge" draw near Elgin. These "sludge" in reality a mixture of fluids removed from wells, water and additives concocted to get a precise density, explains Andrew Hogg, director of communications "Exploration and Production" Total, will be injected into the wells in an attempt to "kill", and finally seal. Wild Well Control, this is an operation "standard," said the spokesman for Total, but with a specific difficulty in Elgin field: its high temperature and high pressure.

If this operation, called "top kill" in the jargon oil, fails, it will drill two wells bypass using two mobile platforms in transit. A job that can take six months, and admits Total cost at least $ 150 million per well, indicated Monday the Chevardière Patrick, CFO of the oil company.

The helicopter and its eight crew members must return to Aberdeen in the day, no question of taking the risk of leaking and a platform that all systems are off.

 

Happy who like Ulysses, has made a great trip, and then returned to live with his parents the rest of his age … This aspiration, a bit outdated, back up to date. For young Americans, the journey of initiation into life ends more often at home. They have gone to university, got out, they struggle to find work and even when they got their job, they are so indebted for their education they can not afford a roof. This is the "boomerang generation", as it is called there, one that returns to its starting point, in the family cocoon.

Three out of ten young adults 25 to 34 years lived at one time or another permanently with their parents in the United States since the beginning of the economic crisis of 2007, reveals the Pew Research Center. This body of socio-economic, non-partisan and hyperactive, which one would like there the equivalent in France and Europe, launched last December a survey of 2,048 adults. He points out that 51.4 million Americans now live in a "multigenerational family" (at least two generations of adults in the same dwelling). A record since the postwar period. The proportion of 25-34 year olds living with their parents, or sometimes with their grandparents, has doubled since 1980, as already shown by the decennial census of population conducted in 2010.

The problem also as much of Europe, although it is regrettable delays in our statistical system. "One in three men and five women living with their parents," according to the latest Eurostat survey dating back to 2008 and 51 million Europeans in this situation. Old Contains more distinguished by its diversity. In Italy, 47.7% of men 25 to 34 years remain in the family fold (and 32.7% women), against 2.8% and 0.5% in Denmark. While the Italians look fondly their "bamboccioni" (big babies), the Danes are doing everything to make them go away. "In Denmark, young people receive public assistance for their education and housing from 18. These scholarships are awarded regardless of parental resources: youth autonomy is considered a right, "says Olivier Galland, research director at CNRS.

For its part, France is among the Nordic model and that of southern Europe, where the crisis has amplified the tradition of bringing together several generations of adults. As part of the Eurostat survey, INSEE has identified "340,000 women and 630,000 men who live with at least one parent or step-parents, or 8% of women and 16% of men aged 25-34 years. "

In the U.S., the multigenerational family is experienced as a convenient answer to the economic crisis and unemployment. "If there was an alleged defect with living with his parents" when you have 25 to 34 years, "Today" boomerang generation "does not have this complex," says Kim Parker, Pew Research Center . For the vast majority (78%), they are satisfied with "the arrangement of their lifestyle." And besides the figures show that families where several generations are less affected by poverty than the rest of the population.

"Family accordion"

Sociologist Katherine Newman and university, recognized expert of "working poor" across the Atlantic, invented the concept of "family accordion": it inflates and deflates at the discretion of the business cycle. But one of the factors that penalize the hardest young adults today is debt-related educational expenses: average $ 27,200 for each graduate and 1000 billion total, according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A huge ball during periods of unemployment and wage moderation.

But beyond the explanation of economic and financial "boomerang generation" she expresses the most profound changes in society? In France, the phenomenon of "Tanguy", the name of this young 28 year old who can not leave the parental nest, was highlighted in 2001 in the film of Stephen Chatiliez. And last month, Jean Ormesson recalled with happiness (in the Figaroscope): "I lived with my parents until the age of 35" (at 95 rue du Bac, in Paris). The lifestyle of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and its charms are democratizing Proustian would be good news after all.

Across the Atlantic, the debate rages on the implications of this return to the patriarchal family. "The Go-Nowhere Generation" (which goes nowhere), accuses Todd Buschholz economist (former advisor to George Bush Sr.), and cite the decline in driving among young people and even falling sales Bicycle. Mobility is one of the strengths of mythic America.

Conversely, Professor Robert Shiller, an expert on real estate and finance, cites the example of old farming families that housed three generations on the same farm. This intergenerational solidarity daily should help us better understand and manage the practical problems of pensions. "Family, I love you" is a good slogan.

 

For the third and penultimate trading session on the agreements "competitive employment", management has decided to accelerate. A draft framework for these agreements was submitted Tuesday to the unions to allow companies to adapt working time and wages according to the activity and avoid having recourse to short. On this subject on the table by Nicolas Sarkozy in January, the MEDEF is pressed to agree – while the unions themselves, the play shows until the presidential election.

Laurence Parisot, the boss of bosses, gave instructions to his troops to quickly reach a compromise: "Beyond the election, so does employment and business life."

The project submitted by the employers provides that such agreements are negotiated within the company, with unions that are present payday lenders. "The branch is present in an advisory capacity and can not be blocking," says Patrick Bernasconi, leader of the employers' delegation. Moreover, the agreement should be concluded for a fixed period, not exceeding two years. The refusal of an employee to accept a dismissal would sui generis authorizing him to receive severance and termination pay.

The unions responded in a disorganized, the polite refusal of the CFDT not judging "not balanced" the denunciation of a "job blackmail" by the CGT.

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In little over a year, 100,000 people have volunteered to open their personal health record (DMP). Agency shared information systems of health (ASIP-Health) announced results Thursday at its annual conference. This virtual folder, which can gather on a server computer history, prescriptions, diagnosis, hospitalization reports or analysis, or CT images or MRI, is accessible and modifiable by healthcare professionals with the agreement of their patient.

While the PS deputy Gerard Bapt just requested an audit of the Court of Auditors, denouncing a device expensive and too centralized, the DMP driver, Jean-Yves Robin, director of the ASIP-Health, insisted yesterday: "Yes The DMP had its schedule. Yes, there on the ground. Yes, he has mastered its cost. "Let € 94 million for five years of experimentation, then 60 million to start the generalization. But, says Jean-Yves Robin, "we have yet to develop uses" – a folder contains on average 2 documents for the moment.

If the director of the ASIP-Health is struggling to hide a hint of annoyance is that the DMP was born with a disease that weakens always skepticism. Blame it on her "parents", Philippe Douste-Blazy and Xavier Bertrand, who in 2004 had promised to equip all the French mid-2007, to the point of wanting to lower repayments of those who would not use it. A flop.

Physicians bill pay

The project started from scratch in late 2009, driven by Roselyne Bachelot. Jean-Yves Robin hoped for a faster take-off – he had advanced "order of magnitude of 2 million cases opened in 2011." But he justifies, the first software that allows healthcare professionals to transfer data with a click of their computer to the DMP a patient arrived late (only 1% of doctors have them). Medical unions are also demanding more or less directly, compensation for time spent to update the DMP – they have not yet integrated this criterion in the "pay for performance" in general they just set place with Medicare. Finally, in 72 hospitals and clinics "converted" in 3000, opening a DMP is rarely offered routinely on admission, contrary to what the Health ASIP-imagined, but in only a few services.

Still, Jean-Yves Robin is convinced that the machine is, this time launched, with a number of cases opened each week steadily increasing (currently 3500). New goal: "300,000 cases by 2012, and a million DMP during the next year."

The candidate Francois Bayrou – joined by Philippe Douste-Blazy? – Wants to speed: for him, the DMP, and avoid repeat several times the same tests or prescribe medication incompatible, will save 4 billion per year. This figure "is not reasonable, disapproves of the president of the ASIP-Health, Michel Gagneux. It is a long term project, which will not yield savings anytime soon, although I am sure it will ultimately efficiency factor. Any expert who will quote any figure is lying to you. "

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The French are increasingly choosing to sustainable consumption. With the crisis, their new creed is "eat less but eat better." The year 2012 starts elsewhere in the gloom on the front of the consumer. The French have reduced their spending by 0.4% in January, INSEE announced Tuesday. This is despite the sales. A recent survey * Ifop, higher wages and purchasing power is a priority concern for 58% of French people (+ 7 points from August 2011) in the context of the presidential election. In addition to these concerns, the ideals of consumption to find a new green accents echo in these times of crisis. A brief overview of the latest trends in cutting waste.

? Donations from individuals, to stop throwing

"Donation after donation, we change the world." Is the slogan of Freecycle.org, a global network of gifts between individuals born in the United States in 2003, which now has 7 million members in 95 countries. In France, it boasts just over 44,000 members. The principle is simple: users register for free on the site to enter into relationships with other individuals and to make donations and recovery of objects. With over 345,000 members, the site Donnons.org created in 2006 has never experienced the crisis. In February, over 9,000 people registered on the site, after more than 11,000 new members in January. "With the decline in purchasing power, our members are looking for an alternative way to consume, and want to give new life to objects instead of flooding the waste dumps," said Isabella Geist, moderating Donnons.org. For the poorest, this site allows free access to certain equipment. "Unlike associations, we function as a social network. Some people stay in touch after making a donation. "

The "comeback" the most spectacular remains of the knitting. Photo credits: Karine Image / Flickr

 

The revolution that began last September by Facebook is now bearing fruit. The founder of social network, Mark Zuckerberg, was then unveiled the "Timeline apps", applications that show the profile of a user's activities on other sites as well-display the songs that played on Spotify read articles the Wall Street Journal. They were accompanied by new action buttons such as "read", "listen," "look" … Several services, including Deezer and Dailymotion in France, had created their applications in the process, followed in January, many other publishers content.

Results published recently by Facebook are spectacular. Since September, 25 million users have installed the application from Yahoo! News. That of the Guardian newspaper has attracted more than 6 million users, half of whom are under 25. More than 10 million people read the Washington Post on Facebook every month five times more than the daily hoped for. In France, the site of movie reviews Cinemur recorded a jump of 40% of its traffic. At Dailymotion, engaging users, who watch more videos on Facebook and connect more often with their IDs on Dailymotion, has tripled.

These successes are helping to win over new Facebook content publishers. Last week, 12 U.S. media, including CBS, the Huffington Post website and portal MSNBC.com, announced the launch of their applications. In France, those of Canal +, Wat (TF1), M6 and Warner Bros. are imminent. "We promise two things to the media: a distribution of their content to potentially 850 million people, and the commitment and recommitment of users," said Julien Codorniou, director of partnerships Facebook France payday loan lenders.

Platform distribution

The virality of social networks operating at full capacity. In France, the fledgling social network travel Wipolo has multiplied by seven the number of users from Facebook. "It was a big accelerator. If we extrapolate these figures, we will save much time on our roadmap, "said Matthew Heslouin, its founder. "The Timeline App provides a distribution platform as powerful as the radio for music," Analysis of turn Spencer Hyman, founder and CEO of Artfinder, a service dedicated to the discovery of works of art. He himself has observed a 60% increase in time spent on its site by users from Facebook.

A priori, the operation is winning for both sides. "The space within the application 100% owned by the publisher who can sell advertising. We do not touch anything over there, "said Julien Codorniou. Facebook sells him, advertising in the sidebar of the browser. To do this, have applications that enrich its database of qualitative information is very valuable. "I listen to Lady Gaga has more value than I like Lady Gaga," says Julien Codorniou. Advantage acquired cheaply: "While Facebook does not touch anything on our advertising revenue, but he pays nothing in buying rights for music and video that contribute to the attractiveness of the platform. The beauty of the tool is that all this work is done by the ecosystem, "says Martin Rogard, CEO of Dailymotion France.

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A wind of change blowing through all unemployment compensation systems in Europe, despite their great diversity. And the phenomenon does not date from the last crisis. "Since the 1990s, virtually all governments have tightened at some point or other conditions of compensation for the unemployed, partly for reasons of economy budget," says Carole Tuchszirer, researcher at the Study Center Employment (ECE).

Some methods have been widely used: reducing the duration of benefits, implementation example in the UK or in Germany, fewer beneficiaries, the Netherlands, Sweden or Spain, decrease the amount of services, enhanced requirements for job seekers in most European countries, including France … The objective of these measures is to encourage the unemployed to return to work. These reforms all the more concerned the most generous countries, like Germany, Belgium, Spain, France or the Nordic countries.

Penalties

But between theory and practice, there is sometimes a step. And obligations that are imposed on the unemployed, sometimes harder on paper than in reality. "When there are no vacancies, the question to accept one or not arise in any case much less," says Christine Erhel, professor at Paris I. In France, the radiation for refusing a reasonable offer of employment were, crisis requires, marginal since the entry into force of the reform in 2008. In Spain and Italy, these constraints are in fact tempered by the inefficiency of public service employment, which is struggling to provide training to the unemployed and job proposals payday loan. Conversely, the success of the Nordic model is based primarily on the association of a number of bonds with an activation policy (provision of training, incentives for rehabilitation, supported employment, assistance with job creation etc.. ) particularly dynamic.

"Bad jobs"

In the current reforms, there is also a contradiction, is Carole Tuchszicher, "to enhance training and to want to simultaneously precipitate the re-employment of the unemployed, even if they take jobs below their qualifications. "

In many countries, like Germany where the Hartz reform has contributed to the rise of mini-jobs paying 400 to 800 euros per month, the tightening of compensation would in fact rather increased the polarization of the labor market, between jobs low-paid or part-time (the "bad jobs" in the Anglo-Saxon), and full-time jobs more protective. "This is a model of society, is Carole Tuchzsicher. At each choose whether to be unemployed, hoping for a job commensurate with his qualifications, or occupy a position more quickly lower quality. "

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