The French Bend…Again

In his address to the nation on Friday, Mr Chirac said the bill would become law, but promised to make some changes.

He pledged to shorten from two years to one the period in which youths under 26 could be fired - and said employers would need a reason for the dismissal.
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So, you are a French employer thinking of trying out some new hires. You’d been promised the ability to let the duds go without cause for two years. Now you discover that the President of the Republic, noting a few million people in the streets, has trimmed a year off the window and now requires cause.

Hmmmm….

Think you are going to hire the noir from the ‘burbs. I think not.

France is pretty much screwed. A fact that its elites are not unaware of; but there is not the slightest chance they will actually do anything until and unless they are staring national bankruptcy in the face. That is likely a decade away. And, by then, it will be very late indeed.

Written by jay on April 1st, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com James Bow
#1. April 2nd, 2006, at 3:02 AM.

I’m willing to bet that you’ll be wanting to comment on this story…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Sean
#2. April 3rd, 2006, at 12:45 AM.

Here in Canada you can basically let anyone go without cause and that still hasn’t helped out our native population in terms of finding and keeping work.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com jay
#3. April 3rd, 2006, at 1:45 AM.

Sean, to a degree. Here is a rather good piece from Stats Canada: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050613/d050613a.htm

What I thought was interesting was that the stats suggest that “While many Aboriginal people in western Canada had a harder time in the labour market than their non-Aboriginal counterparts, those who had completed some form of postsecondary education, such as trade school, college or university, did not.

The employment rate for Aboriginal people aged 25 to 64 who had finished postsecondary education was 82.5% in western Canada, just shy of the 83.5% for non-Aboriginal persons.”

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