As orders have dropped, factories have started to lay off workers, cut overtime hours and in some cases withhold pay.
At home Mr Sarkozy has already moved to liberalise the rigid French Labour market, for example by reducing taxation on overtime hours.
On 28 May 2006, Hu Xinyu, an engineer at the Huawei Company in Shenzhen died from exhaustion after working excessive overtime hours for nearly one month.
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