Ernest-Antoine Seilliere (R), President of France's bosses union (MEDEF), and Lucien Rebuffel (L), head of the confederation of small and medium businesses (CGPME), applaud during a meeting to protest against the law to reduce the working week to 35 hours, October 4. Some 30,000 bosses meet to protest the second part of French Labor Minister Martine Aubry's 35-hour working week law.

PW/HB