James Traub, Foreign PolicyFour years ago, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin
proposed allowing employers to hire workers up to age 26 to their first
job on a probationary basis and be able to fire them without the immense
rigmarole imposed by France's elaborate labor laws. The French took to the
streets in outrage; I was able to take my son to his first manif, or demonstration. The Socialist Party backed the protesters all
the way; their candidate for president, Ségolène Royal, told me that it was
unjust to provide job security for businessmen but not for first-time
employees. President Jacques Chirac...
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