French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced earlier this week that he was to introduce a bill creating two new job contracts. The most significant, called “first job contract”, will be intended to employees under 26 years old, in companies with more than 20 employees. The government’s official goal is to take on the sky-high unemployment rate of youngsters in France (23% of them are unemployed). (Ref 0640)
This new contract will stay within the framework of the “permanent contract” which is the most common job contract in France. But the trial period for employees (it will be called a consolidation period) will last two years, instead of the usual 4 to 12 weeks. Employers will thus be able to sack these new employees with virtually no formality. People working under such contracts will not be entitled to the legal protections that exist for other employees. At the most, youngsters will be entitle
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