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France Retreats! French Labor Law thread pt deux...
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SO, I haven't followed the debate closely. And I'm a tad to lazy to read the entire first thread, but I have a question that some here might be able to answer:
So it might be 'wrong' or 'right' to be able to fire someone within two years. We might also think about scores of hypothetical and real anecdotes that supports or refutes the law. But what grounds do we have to belive this law would lead to a significant increase in the number of jobs?
Originally posted by Kropotkin
But what grounds do we have to belive this law would lead to a significant increase in the number of jobs?
According ot the free-marketeers, the difficulties at firing someone in France make the employers very reluctant to hire anybody.
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According ot the free-marketeers, the difficulties at firing someone in France make the employers very reluctant to hire anybody.
Indeed. But even according to them, the law wouldn't have helped much since it only works by not telling why you fire someone and thus making it a bit more likely for the entrepreneur to win their trials.
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English: the guy says that France's 10% unemployment rate is the result of a tacit pact between the middle class (who trades job security for heavy taxes) and the poor (who get no job but receive sufficient public aid instead).
Originally posted by Kropotkin
SO, I haven't followed the debate closely. And I'm a tad to lazy to read the entire first thread, but I have a question that some here might be able to answer:
So it might be 'wrong' or 'right' to be able to fire someone within two years. We might also think about scores of hypothetical and real anecdotes that supports or refutes the law. But what grounds do we have to belive this law would lead to a significant increase in the number of jobs?
The Italian Biagi law of 2003 , liberalizing temporary and part-time employment, and generally seen as succesfull in stimulating job creation.
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Colon, the CPE law didn't remotely look like what you describe. The only hope for increase would have been that more people would have hired young employees with the hope of being able to fire them more easily if their venture failed.
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It's the exact same dynamics we're talking about. It allows for looser employment conditions and easier firing, which has made it very attractive to Italian employers.
In fact it's been witnessed all over Europe that employers are resorting to part-time and temp contracts to avoid the strict conditions attached to full-time employment (which is also why there are relatively more part-time and temp employees in Europe than in the US). It's also been a major cause of the spectacular fall in Spanish unemployment for instance, or the very low Dutch unemployment.
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Originally posted by Sandman
You know, I used to admire France. Excellent healthcare, great trains, sturdy manufacturing sector. Opposite of Britain in those regards.
I can't say I admire France now. They're struggling, mostly from self-inflicted wounds.
When you have a moronic political elite such as ours, it's basically two facets of the same coin. Either you go in the direction of wild capitalism (the CPE offered no genuine counterpart to the employee for the increased flexibility he'd have to suffer from), or you go in the direction of welfare-state-conservatism.
Things are changing, at least among the political elite of the left. Should the Socialists win, they are likely to be an adept and pragmatic right-wing government. As to the commies, many good and modern ideas come from the upper circles of the parties, but the target audience is much more conservative.
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Originally posted by JohnT
We, at least the intelligent ones, consider flexibility in employment a benefit.
I don't consider it a benefit when my employer has no idea whether I'll be needed at work tomorrow or not (which means that I don't have any idea either).
My schedule has been utterly wrecked by the day-to-day job at the sports store. For that reason, I accepted a 4-day gig at another place next week, simply because I can plan a bit ahead, and do things with my life other than work.
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