UnNews:French PM Calls for Additional Legislation to Increase Hiring Rates

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25 March 2006

Paris, France --Under mounting social pressure, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for additional legislation to ease unemployment. His plan, which he outlined at a press conference this morning, will expand on the success and rectify several apparent oversights of the First Job Contract (CPE), which allows employers to fire employees without giving reason during a two-year period.

"Though the unemployment rate may not be immediately impacted by this act," said De Villepin, "if we can increase the hiring rate sufficiently, our projections show that 147% of the population will be employed by 2012, and 479% by 2020. If a few kids are fired in the short-term, it is a burden we have to bear."

The changes Villepin outlined at this morning's press conference are in part a reaction to the criticism of critics, who critically claimed that those fired under the CPE would become unemployed themselves. The solution to this problem, as presented in the revised CPE would allow employers alternatives to firing employees, such as giving them mandatory and permanent positions as gratis jobholders, or providing state-subsidized "Services Euthanasique" (SE's) to ex-employees.