Macron Takes On France’s Labor Code, 100 Years in the Making<br />that Company agreements will be the law — it is an incredible revolution,<br />" — the protections, rights and obligations of workers — "most efficiently fulfills the specific needs of workers and companies, in the construction of the best compromise, closest to the ground," she said.<br />that The company itself is the space where the creation of social standards<br />" said Ms. Guerniou, the window maker. that We are in permanent fear of facing a Code du Travail<br />that is more and more complex, of always having one more obligation,<br />Socialist wrote that The emerging law,<br />These barriers have become known as France’s infamous "social ceilings." "There is a discouragement, for sure, on<br />the hiring of new people," said Catherine Guerniou, who owns a small window-making company in the Paris suburbs.<br />The Macron changes would help employers set the rules on hiring and firing, ignore the crippling restraints in the code<br />that discourage taking on new workers, and limit unions’ ability to get in the way.<br />But if Mr. Macron prevails, the historic French opposition, even hatred, between worker and employer<br />that is enshrined in the code will no longer be the guiding philosophy in labor relations.<br />that This will make the French labor market more flexible, and allow companies to adapt,<br />It is France’s infamous, almost indecipherable labor code, the Code du Travail, both revered and reviled.
