Four months after the French Government [1] asked the social partners to begin negotiations over labour market reform, a national interprofessional agreement (in French, 317Kb PDF) [2] was signed on 11 January 2013. The social partners had been asked to conclude an agreement ‘to the fullest extent
French President Nicolas Sarkozy promised during his election in 2007 to ‘give back purchasing power to the French’, in particular through better distribution of company profits. As a result of that promise, a new law is to be put before parliament that would oblige larger private sector companies