France Travail Law: Unpaid Work and Reinforced Control for Precarious Workers

France Travail Law: Unpaid Work and Reinforced Control for Precarious Workers

Reinforced control for forced labor:the “Full employment” law adopted, FRANCE TRAVAIL is created FRANCE TRAVAIL is the merger between Pôle emploi (which manages the unemployed), local missions (which manage unemployed young people) and Cap emploi (which manages unemployed people with disabilities). We add people to the RSA who are now obliged to also register with … Read more

2023-2024 Women’s French Cup Draw: Complete List of Matches and Teams

2023-2024 Women’s French Cup Draw: Complete List of Matches and Teams

The draw for the first federal round of the 2023-2024 Women’s French Cup, which will mark the entry into the running of the women’s D2 teams, was held this Wednesday, November 1 at the National Football Center in Clairefontaine (Yvelines). The matches will be played on Sunday November 19. Here is the draw : Group … Read more

Resisting the Demolition: The Fight to Save Social Housing in Roubaix’s Alma-Gare District

Resisting the Demolition: The Fight to Save Social Housing in Roubaix’s Alma-Gare District

“We will not leave”: in Roubaix, in the priority district of Alma-gare, a collective is resisting the planned demolition of hundreds of social housing units, built in the 1980s following a historic mobilization of the inhabitants , co-authors of a “reference” layout. “To raze these buildings, built according to the wishes of the inhabitants 40 … Read more

Roubaix: what kind of bike to use, how the frames are made and how they have changed

Roubaix: what kind of bike to use, how the frames are made and how they have changed

Balancing performance and muscle strength: how frames, bicycles and tires have changed to face the Hell of the North Fire call from France. Roubaix 1995: Giorgio Squinzi, Mr. Mapei, calls Ernesto Colnago. “Here it’s all a criticism, even our mechanics are undecided, Ernesto. They say that when you go over the cobblestones, the carbon will … Read more

disappearance of a retired couple from Roubaix, all avenues considered

disappearance of a retired couple from Roubaix, all avenues considered

In the North, a couple of 79 and 83 year olds from Roubaix have not given any sign of life since New Year’s Day. Three weeks after their disappearance, the investigators are still looking for a leadand do not exclude any hypothesis, we learned from the prosecution. “All hypotheses are being considered at the moment,” … Read more

Horror moment on Roubaix. Lampaert flew like a rag doll after a clash with the spectator

Horror moment on Roubaix.  Lampaert flew like a rag doll after a clash with the spectator

Sunday’s 119th edition of one of the five cycling monuments became the solo prey of the Dutchman Dylan van Baarl, who reached the finish line at the velodrome in Roubaix after 257 km with an almost two-minute lead. However, a fierce battle between the pursuers, including Lampaert, flared up for more places on the podium. … Read more

Revolution. At Paris-Roubaix, riders will control the tire pressure directly from the handlebars

Revolution.  At Paris-Roubaix, riders will control the tire pressure directly from the handlebars

The Dutch company Scope took two years to develop a special gadget for road bikes, and the product is currently on sale for almost 4,000 euros (100,000 crowns). The system promises the ability to control the pressure in tubeless tires while driving using the buttons on the handlebars without the rider having to stop. The … Read more

A Roubaix mini-market promoting laughing gas arouses the anger of two deputies

A Roubaix mini-market promoting laughing gas arouses the anger of two deputies

It is a kit to take drugs with laughing gas that this Roubaix mini-market offers in complete peace. Installed in the Trois-Ponts district, it distributes an advertising leaflet offering for sale both “proto” capsules – originally designed for whipped cream siphons – and gas bottles, with as a bonus, five balloons offered for one bottle … Read more

with the retirement of the Lauras, the last jewelry store in the city center will disappear at the end of March

with the retirement of the Lauras, the last jewelry store in the city center will disappear at the end of March

They were to leave first in December, then at the end of January. Finally, it will be at the end of March that Francis and Catherine Lauras will definitively close their business: the eponymous jewelry store located on rue Pierre-Motte in Roubaix, which they have managed since 1980. ” We are ready to leave, but … Read more