The original sin of the first hire contract

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Demonstration, March 28, 2006, in Paris, against the CPE proposed by Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister at the time. Bertrand Meunier/Tendance Floue

DECRYPTION – The idea of ​​the first job contract, wanted by Dominique de Villepin, came up against a wall of incomprehension and led to years of immobility.

The idea was good, at least it started from a good feeling. But it quickly came up against a wall of incomprehension and led, after its Homeric withdrawal, to years of immobility… This idea was the first employment contract (CPE) that Dominique de Villepin had drawn up without consultation from his hat, in January 2006, to improve youth employment.

It must be said that the situation then hardly encouraged optimism and could justify that the Prime Minister, 16 months before a presidential election where he aspired to be a candidate, tried everything for everything. At the beginning of 2006, the unemployment rate for people under 25 reached 24.1%, a record for the time. As for their employment rate, it had for the first time fallen below the 30% mark, an all-time low.

Hence the Villepin proposal to create a new kind of contract, an open CDI reserved for companies with more than 20 employees and open to those under 26, which could be terminated without reason by the employer…

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