The "first employment contract" proposed by the French government in 2006 is a case in point. The law stated that companies hiring people under the age of 26 could fire those employees without cause within two years of their hire. The law was intended to help alleviate France's intractable problem with unemployment among young people, which has run as high as 25 %.
法國政府在 2006 年推出的「首次雇用契約」法案即是一例，法案規定企業若雇用 26 歲以下青年，試用期可長達兩年，在這段期間內，雇主不必提正式理由即可解僱他們。