There is a simple, if radical, solution: abrogate the legal provisions that regulate the duration of employment contracts, and return the treatment of tenure and seniority to collective bargaining, as is the case elsewhere. The logical complement of such freedom would be to make employers pay for the social costs of plant closings, by levying a tax on layoffs, which would increase with seniority.
有一个简单（或许称得上激进）的解决办法：废除就业合同期限的法律规定，将终身职位和资历的处理退还给集体谈判，就像别的地方一样。这种权利有一个符合逻辑的补充，就是通过按下岗人员征税，并且随资历的增加而提高税率，让雇主承担关闭工厂的社会成本。这笔税收的部分收益可以用来资助法国落后的、急待发展的公共就业安置服务。