French Employment Law.

One other thing I heard on NPR. They were talking about unemployment in France. I guess France has a law saying if you want to fire someone you have to go to the government and prove that you have a good reason. And then you have to give them some considerable severence. In consequence it seems that French companies don't hire people as much cause it's such a risk/burden. They get people to be 'interns' and they can pay them like 300 euros a month. And they can be interns for years.
Sounds like a shitty system to me.