The French deputy Minister of Employment, Gérard Larcher, had announced his will - right after the European fund, aiming at financing measures aiming at re-integrate redundant workers into labour market, was adopted (see story n°070001) to require it for the automobile industry, which supposedly lost 10,000 jobs in 2006. It is considered done with a 500,000 euros request addressed to the European Commission to finance the measures taken for the laid-off personnel in one of PSA's subsidiaries. Germany, Portugal and Spain might do the same soon. (Ref. 070230)
It is in favour of the staff of one of PSA’s subsidiary companies, in the Ardennes, in bankruptcy that the French Labour Ministry submitted a case to the European Commission, in order to beneficiate from the EGF which came into effect on January 1 (see our story n° 070001). The minister is asking for almost 500,000 euros to refund a part of the actions he already took, and which mainly consist in professional transition contracts (see our story n° 06399). Half of these measures (almost 400) of
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