FRANCE-MEDIA-JOBS

Two senior executives of the newspaper La Republique du Centre Gilles Cremillieux (R) and Jerome Riviere, meet with union representatives during a special committee meeting on January 29, 2014 in Saran, central France, as they are held 'hostage' in the newspaper's offices for a second day. Workers at a French newspaper group were holding hostage Gilles Cremillieux and human resources chief Jerome Riviere in a wave of "bossnapping" protests by employees facing lay-offs. Discontent has been simmering since the Centre France/La Montagne group, which employs some 1,200 people, announced plans to close a printing centre and lay off 78 workers, in line with efforts to increasingly focus on electronic media. The workers have been on strike since January 18 over the amount of severance pay offered. AFP PHOTO / GUILLAUME SOUVANT (Photo credit should read GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP via Getty Images)