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Rioting against the most basic freedom
What the white French students have been demonstrating and rioting about. First, we have to understand that France is not a free society, France is a controlled society, where, unbelievably, private employers cannot in the ordinary course of things fire their employees; it sounds something like Rome in the late empire, where people were tied to their jobs. The CPE (Contract Premier Embauche, or First Employement Contract) changed that slightly, allowing employers to lay off young workers at will during the first two years of employment. It was thought that if businesses were free to fire employees, they would be more likely to hire them as well, decreasing unemployment among the young residents of the “suburbs” who rioted last fall.
This is the law the students are protesting. They are demanding the continuation of the right not to be fired from their first job. It sounds like a joke, but it’s true. Here is further analysis of this. Email entry |