The reforms that have plunged france into strike chaos this week are aimed at simplifying and relaxing the country’s labour laws, mainly by giving individual companies greater leeway to make. There are grumblings in france over fresh plans to reform rigid labour laws around the country’s precious 35-hour working week. the hostility from the french has included remarks such as: ‘we. French labour reform law "el khomri" will gradually become enforceable over the next two years. a new labour reform law called "el khomri" (named after labour minister myriam el khomri) was adopted into law on 8 august 2016 and will gradually become enforceable throughout q4 2016, and all of 2017 and 2018..
France has no lack of economic assets: an enviable standard of living, high productivity, above-average prime-age labour-force participation and average income inequality that, unlike in many other oecd countries, has not worsened over the long term.. The labour law reform is composed of five government rulings, which list the 36 measures planned to “reinforce the social dialogue”. macron has always said he wanted this reform to start right after his election, so he chose to use his executive powers to force it through.. Labour costs in france are extremely high. the cost of labour. as hsbc puts it: "in our view, the lack of reform in the labour market goes some way in explaining the underperformance. the most obvious problem is the high level of labour costs, which can be further broken down to the following factors." one of the big reasons why france.
