France : government introduces two flexible job contracts

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced earlier this week that he was to introduce a bill creating two new job contracts. The most significant, called “first job contract”, will be intended to employees under 26 years old, in companies with more than 20 employees. The government’s official goal is to take on the sky-high unemployment rate of youngsters in France (23% of them are unemployed). (Ref 0640)

Through . Published on 18 January 2006 à 17h55 - Update on 17 March 2013 à 19h09

This new contract will stay within the framework of the “permanent contract” which is the most common job contract in France. But the trial period for employees (it will be called a consolidation period) will last two years,…

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