French riots & labor law

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We’ve all seen the riots in France over the proposed change in their labor laws. But there was a very good article in the Sunday NY Times about how the laws work:

The French government wants to make it easy to fire young workers. Easier firing, easier hiring, the logic goes. Who wants to add people to the permanent payroll if it’s painful and costly to undo a mistake?
  • The laws on “licensement,” as firing in France is called, are complex enough to fill a book, but in the end there are essentially four ways for an employer to deliver a pink slip. All involve time or money or both, because employees who don’t want to go quietly can file a complaint with the Conseil des Prud’hommes, the court that rules on terminations.
 
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