This brought the number of job seekers in France to 2.1 million, the labor ministry said.

The Labor Ministry reported about 570 strikes under way today.

The Labor Ministry is setting a national goal - asking companies to offer workers a full week off.

Soon after he left, the Labor Ministry said most of the documents had been destroyed since the war.

It decided to set up a Labor Ministry to look after the interests of workers in the new capitalist environment.

The economics and labor ministry cut its forecast for growth in 2003 to zero, from an earlier projection of 0.75 percent.

The guilty included several former senior bureaucrats from the Labor Ministry.

The Labor Ministry, which had rejected all of the claims in the case, was ordered to pay his family about $210,000.

After the War, he became an official in the Ministry of Labor.

A number of recent reports, by the press and the Labor Ministry, offer an assessment of the law's impact.