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A new labor law proposed by French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has monopolized French politics and discussion for the past month. The law, First Employment Contract or Contrat Premiere Embauche, CPE, originally stated that it will allow employers to fire workers under the age of 26 without justification or notice within a 2 year trial period. The law is intended to help reduce Frances extremely high unemployment rate and to provide more “equal opportunity” policies. President Jacques Chirac oversaw revisions to the law that would reduce the trial period to 1 year and will require employers to provide justification for terminating the employment of young workers. Although amendments to the law have been made, the law is still not put into action and the specifics of it are not yet confirmed. Also, a lot of people are left confused and are unsure about the future of the law because Chirac has left the law pending although he said it will be promulgated, therefore the future of France’s labor front is still in question.
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