A second step was made in the issue of the single status. After the social partners reached a compromise in July, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on Friday, September 27. The text is very close to the compromise adopted this summer but the social partners are still tense. Starting on January 1, 2014, the waiting day (unpaid first day of sick leave) will disappear and workers and employees will have the same notice regulations. Finally, it was agreed that the social partners would negotiate, within the National Labor Council and before October 31, 2013, a collective agreement concerning the grounds for layoff. (Ref. 130573)
What happened with the notice. To remove obstacles to the recruitment of young workers and improve mobility on the employment market, notice periods will now follow a very precise table. According to the press release the government published after the Council, “new notice periods follow the different phases of the labor relation and were adapted to the current structure of the employment market. Thus, for instance, notice periods are short at the beginning of the career to remove obstacles to new recruitments and thus improve mobility on the employment market.
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