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JURIST Guest Columnist Pascale Duparc Portier of the National University of Ireland (Galway) Faculty of Law says that the mass protests in France against the new First Employment Contract (CPE) legislation may be reminiscent of the 1968 Paris student uprising,...

France's Interior Minister and anticipated 2007 French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a compromise over a new youth labor law - the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat première embauche, CPE)...

Fresh talks between French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and French trade union leaders over the new First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law ended in deadlock Friday with the government...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin indicated Tuesday that he might back off from his previous insistence on a provision of the First Employment Contract (CPE) he guided through Parliament...

French labor and student groups Monday called a day of strikes for March 28 after the French goverment refused to withdraw its recently passed First Employment Contract (CPE) , which allows French...

The French government again defended its recently passed First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law Sunday, a day after mass protests against the legislation were held in Paris and other major French cities. The law allows French...

French students and workers took to the streets Saturday in protest over the recent passage of a new labor law which allows employers to fire people at will under the age of 26 during the first two years of...

The French government on Friday condemned violent protests against the recently passed First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law. A group of student and union demonstrators clashed with French authorities around the Sorbonne University in Paris Thursday,...

Protests by students across France increased on Thursday in response to the First Employment Contract (CPE) , a controversial labor law which allows employers to hire workers under 26 for a conditional two-year period at the end...

Students at 59 of France's 84 universities went on strike Tuesday, occupying and blockading about 50 of them in protest against a new law proposed by the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin...