French Employment Contract

A view into the employment morass (malaise?) the French continually find themselves in:

Villepin says his First Job Contract will help young people find jobs, crucial because youth unemployment is more than double the national average and rises to 50 percent in some poor suburbs where it was a factor behind riots in November.

But the law allows employers to dismiss people under 26 at any time during a 2-year trial period and that would destroy job security, critics say.

“I would say ‘no’ (to a job offered under the law) because I would have no security for two years,” Jerome Desprol, 24, told Reuters.

So let’s have a massive march to protest!