France recently experienced a wave of protests against a bill popularly known as the CPE (contrat de premiere embauche, "first job contract"). The brainchild of right-wing Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, the CPE was designed to make it easier for employers to fire workers under the age of 26. But it ran into unexpectedly strong opposition from high-school students about to enter the job market.
近日來法國反對新勞工法的風潮鬧得沸沸揚揚，這種針對 26 歲以下社會新鮮人而設的新法，原是法國右派總理德維爾賓為了鼓勵企業主雇用年輕人，特別構想出來的優惠資方的新法，卻因法案中允許雇主以寬鬆條件解雇首度就業青年，而始料未及地遭到中高校學生（即未來社會新鮮人）的強烈反彈。