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...have a modest suggestion for how to end France's impasse over youth job contracts: the French government should pay for a group of student leaders to spend a couple of weeks in Yekaterinburg. It wouldn't cost much, since there's now a cheap direct flight to and from Paris operated by Ural Airlines (slogan: your dreams. our wings.) Yekaterinburg is Russia's fifth largest city, about the size of Marseilles and Lyons combined. Assuming the French students have an open mind, they should be astonished, unsettled and perhaps a little ashamed of what they find there. The under...
Since the beginning of April, the French first employment contract, an attempt to encourage the hiring of youth under 26 by reducing their employment protection, has been the law of the land. But if there is such a thing as a Pyrrhic compromise, President Jacques Chirac and the millions who have taken to the streets to protest the law have found it. The French President has asked employers not to apply the law in its current form, and the changes it will undergo are unlikely to make it better at creating jobs for the one-quarter of French youth...
...rights. I have a friend working as a system administrator for the state-owned Sberbank. They pay him $145 a month. He has no contract, no nothing. This is standard practice in Russia. So the French students' problems do not really apply here. Marianna Lorusso 28, producer for a youth-targeted satellite TV station, Rome I'd be willing to accept that it might take three or five years to find a secure job, but by all accounts I shouldn't expect it for at least 20 years. It's pretty depressing. It means there are certain things...
...peek over the shoulders and into the minds of the multitasking generation connected with e-mailing, IMing, Web-surfing youth who defended their do-it-all-at-once lifestyle as the new norm. But some readers cautioned that kids need to unplug once in a while to preserve their humanity...
...While volunteering at O. Perry Walker High School over intersession, he said he felt obligated to act as a role model for black youth who lacked them...