[news] France: Students & Workers Force Government to Back Down on "First Job Contract"

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

The French government today bowed to weeks of protests and announced it was scrapping a controversial employment law that made it easier for employers to fire workers under the age of 26...In the wake of the biggest street demonstrations for almost 40 years, the office of the president, Jacques Chirac, said a new plan focusing on youths from troubled backgrounds would replace the "first job contract"...The secretary-general of the UNSA union, Alain Olive, said the 12 syndicated groups of workers, university and high school students had "won a great victory".

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