France : the Labour Ministry is calling upon the European globalization adjustment fund (EGF) for the automotive industry

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)
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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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