France: government delivers the social partners a work program for renewing the social model

On 06 June the government delivered a program of labor market reforms to the social partners that quite clearly sets out the direction to follow in order to accommodate consultation, timetabling, and the approach to adopt. The goal is to move towards ‘a more contractual form of labor law’ and ‘free up energy whilst still affording better protection by adapting both the current and future rules and workers’ rights,’ according to Labor Minister Muriel Pénicaud.
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“This program sets out how the consultations will proceed in terms of reforming the labor code with a view to adopting draft enabling legislation sitting with the Council of Ministers since 28 June, a parliamentary review this summer, and the publication of official ordinances before the end of the summer (Ed. note: before 21 September),” Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced at the press conference, which started with a presentation of the document that had been delivered to the social par

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