A short introduction to and history of bossnapping - workers detaining their bosses in order to win demands - written by Evan Johnston. If you’ve never heard of bossnapping, it’s exactly how it sounds ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. (That’s employees kidnapping the boss, not the boss napping in a meeting) In case you missed it, we wanted to ...

French bosses were given a fresh reminder of the dangers facing them during the economic downturn yesterday as angry factory workers in Grenoble barricaded their offices and took four managers hostage ...

PARIS — Almost half of French people believe it is acceptable for workers facing layoffs to lock up their bosses, according to an opinion poll published yesterday. Staff at French plants run by Sony, ...

Trust the French to come up with an exciting new wrinkle in labor-management negotiations — but, first, the situation on this side of the pond. After being a faint presence on the national scene for ...

In the town of Woippy, France, five managers are being held hostage by workers facing layoffs at Hewlett-Packard subsidiary FM Logistic. 125 workers decided to take matters into their own hands as ...

There may be plenty of good reasons to be angry at your boss these days. But few express that frustration quite like the French. Over the past several weeks factory workers facing pay cuts and layoffs ...

Anglo-French rivalry in the arena of industrial resistance against the effects of the recession is alive and well. So far the score is France 9, Britain 5. But the workers from each country seem to be ...

The latest case of “bossnapping” has revived a debate about a potentially serious criminal offence which, though punishable with up to 30 years in jail, is rarely, if at all, sanctioned. "In France, ...

A senior manager at French auto parts maker Faurecia was being held late on Thursday by workers angry at plans to restructure a factory southwest of Paris, a union official said. The official in the ...

Simply sign up to the US companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Eight former employees of the Goodyear tyre factory in northern France have each been handed two-year jail sentences ...

SEMOY, France – Workers at a French chemical plant owned by the U.S. company Dow Chemical freed their boss Tuesday after holding him overnight to protest the closing of the factory in the Loire Valley ...