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French artists and entertainment workers (known in France as "Intermittents du spectacle") hold a banner reading "six unemployed out of ten, scandal, no compensation" during a protest against government plans to cut their benefits, prior to the YDE 2015 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on October 1, 2014 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts School) in Paris. More than 106,000 people benefit from the intermittent system, set up 30 years ago by Francois Mitterrand's socialist government to counter chronic job insecurity in the arts and entertainment industries. It allows certain performance artists, technicians and designers to claim unemployment benefit while they are "resting" as long as they have worked at least three months of the year. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)