Fucking Sephora, man. It can’t just be content with the fact that people all over the world yearn for its outrageously expensive (and tiny) cosmetics — now, thanks in part to the opportunity provided by a stagnant French economy and a busy location on the Champs-Élysées, Sephora is leading the charge to dismantle some of France’s labor laws just so it can sell makeup on Sunday. Because workers want to work, you guys, and it’s definitely not exploitative of Big Makeup to let workers do what they do naturally — serve their corporate overlords. When you think about it, workers should really be paying Sephora, but let’s deal with one thing at a time.
According to a thorough report from USA Today, Sephora has emerged as one of the leaders in a struggle to dismantle French labor laws that it and its supporters say are harming the French economy. For the record, the French economy is in pretty shitty shape — unemployment is at about 10.5 percent, and the country hasn’t really emerged from the 2008 recession. Some observers point to France’s persnickety labor laws and powerful labor unions as the source of at least some of the economy’s stagnation. If only the government would get out of the way of growth — so that line of thought goes — the economy would be much stronger.