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...backed by Villepin, to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which has rarely fallen below 20% since 1983 and currently stands at 22% - and at more than 40% in the poorer neighbor-hoods that exploded in bitter rioting last fall. His plan: a "first employment contract" that allows employers to fire workers under the age of 26 within two years of their hiring, without cause and with no obligation to shell out France's hefty severance payments. Making it easier to get rid of unsatisfactory workers, the government believes, will help employers overcome their reluctance to hire young...
Some employees of AlliedBarton, a security firm contracted by Harvard, are accusing their company of ignoring their calls for unionization. Frustrated by what they say is a lack of mechanisms to express grievances such as the withholding of wages and frequent shift changes, guards with Allied, the nation’s largest private security firm, have been trying to unionize for about a year. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 seeks to represent the AlliedBarton security guards. SEIU organizer Emerson Harris says there are about 250 to 300 Allied officers working at locations across the University. The union...
...believed to be spread in cattle feed carrying infected brain, bone or spinal tissue from other cows. Any cow that ate from the same troughs could be sick, too. According to research by New York biologist Michael Hansen, it takes less than a milligram of infected material to contract the disease. "This is a critical example of our failure to have an animal ID system," warns Jean Halloran, director of food safety at the Consumer' s Union. "We were moving toward this sytem but the USDA backed off." In 2004 the USDA proposed a mandatory national animal tagging and tracking...
...relax labor laws for young employees. Despite the remnants of Romanticism rooted in our young souls, the struggle of 2006 is mistaken in means and ends, just like the 1968 turned out to be. Last month, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin managed to create a First Employment Contract, which liberalizes employment for young adults up to 26 years old. The law only affects small companies, but promises a type of contract that can be broken by the employer any time within two years of hiring without an explanation. Unions, socialist representatives, and Sorbonne students alike immediately cried bloody murder...
...seekers under 26 within two years of hiring them, without giving cause or shelling out the restrictive severance payments usually due when an employee is laid off. Since those protections often make the country's employers wary of bringing on new hires, Villepin has made the "First Employment Contract" law the centerpiece of his effort to cut unemployment among 25-year-olds-and-less from its dismal rate of 22% - and as much as twice that much in the troubled cit?s of the "banlieues," the outlying suburbs (where many descendants of North African and sub-Saharan immigrants live) which exploded...