French Students Protest Controversial Labor Law

Students and young workers have held demonstrations across France against the French government's CPE (First Job Contract)workplace reform.

The Contrat de première embauche legislation allows employers to fire workers under the age of 26 without cause during their first two years of employment.

The government has argued that the reform is necessary to reduce France's youth unemployment rate of 23 percent.

Are the French students and young workers right to protest? Are they too young to worry about job security and is the French Governments right that the policy will encourage more companies to take on young workers?

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