And in August Mr Sarkozy pushed through a law obliging public-transport workers to negotiate some form of minimum service during a strike.
Anticipating resistance, his advisers are already working on a draft of the law on minimum service, so as to curb the effectiveness of strikes.
It could be left to dwindle as a minimum service for people with no alternative, or it could be managed energetically as a rival to the banks.
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But one could imagine switching to a system like the one in Washington DC, where fares are regulated, but anyone who meets minimum service criteria can go into the taxi business.
Minimum service means they show up most of the time, they may show up on time and they may not swear while on the clock or be excessively rude, sarcasm will remain.
There's no minimum service, customers are allowed to change their plans on the fly, and there's even a handy parental control mode that lets concerned caretakers set curfews and app restrictions on their kid's phones.
One bill he plans to present then would force the public-sector transportation monopolies to guarantee a minimum of service during their frequent strikes.
At first they invested in a basic-level membership that had the lowest monthly fee and a two-figure monthly minimum on dining service.
The licence agreement includes delivering a minimum standard of service.
Aviation authorities say this helps to ensure that airlines meet minimum levels of passenger service.
He said he would introduce a new law, due to take effect next year, to guarantee minimum levels of public service during strikes.
Manufacturing jobs, minimum wage jobs, service jobs, whatever, the result is always the same: raise the price of labour and more automation will happen.
James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation pointed out that in 2011 and 2012 only 2.9 percent of all workers earned the minimum, and that figure included service workers who earned enough in tips to move them above the minimum.
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The new rating of adequate by the education standards authority means the service "meets minimum requirements".
They must offer this service in a minimum of two data centers, located in different metropolitan areas.
Ms. Hesseltine got the idea for using touch-screen technology to eliminate most or all of her minimum-wage customer-service staff after seeing a nearby juice business do something similar.
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Most banks offer it for customers who agree to have their payroll checks automatically deposited, although again, some big banks are starting to reinstate monthly service charges if minimum balances aren't maintained.
Clients often equate a higher level of service with a higher account minimum, people in the industry say.
Which includes the minimum price to charge for a surprisingly undifferentiated service.
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The imposition of the service charge on that receipt makes it clear that the server could be paid minimum wage (depending on his or her other customers), and not issued the service charge at all, despite serving a table of ten.
The availability of the FreedomPop iPod touch 4G Sleeve comes on the heels of the company's public Beta launch earlier this month, which has shaken up the wireless market with it's game-changing offering: a guaranteed minimum of 500MB of free 4G wireless Internet service every month.
The move is designed to cause continuous disruption to the nation's postal service throughout the period at a "minimum cost" to CWU members, union officials say.
When Montage introduced Surrender earlier this year, the only available service was a single day, with a minimum of two hours.
"Last month, I announced that we were supporting a universal service level of 2 Mbps as the very minimum that should be available, " said Mr Hunt at an industry conference on 15 July.
An Ofsted report said that the service was "adequate", meaning it reached minimum standards.
About 1, 000 people and businesses already have the service, which provides data transmission speeds at a minimum rate of 256 kilobits-per-second, 4.5 times faster than the speediest phone circuit.
Kim Dellarocca, director of practice management at Pershing, a service provider to advisers, says the decision of whether to publicize an account minimum can depend on an adviser's business model.
Maybe a San Francisco restaurant can't move out of town, but the laundry service the eatery uses can move its jobs to an adjoining locale with a lower minimum, he argues.
This service has been priced out of the market in fast food by past increases in the minimum wage, however.
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Eric Solomon's father got a letter from the Internal Revenue Service stating his 2004 tax return couldn't be processed because he hadn't computed his alternative minimum tax.
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