Firing French workers.

Editor,

The article linked to below, by Rick Wolff, a University of Massachusetts economics professor, explains that French labor law before the CPE, and now, allows employers to fire employees without cause at any time during the first 6 months after being hired.

Statements to the effect that French youth "demand that, if and when they get a job, it comes with a 35-hour workweek, five weeks of vacation, mandatory profit-sharing, retirement at age 60 and the right never to be relocated, fired or demoted," are disingenuous and misleading in light of the fact that French workers can be fired without cause for the first 6 months on a job and that after that 6-month probationary period they can be fired with the approval of a court within the French judicial system that adjudicates wrongful termination claims.

Giving American newspaper readers the impression that French workers can never be fired from the moment of hire is a gross misrepresentation of French labor law and frames the neoliberal project as it pertains to France in terms that are misleading and incorrect.

http://www.globalmacroscope.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=462