Subsidised employment contracts contrats aides

For some years now, the state has sought to guide employment policy by reducing the cost of labour and by providing assistance to companies (and administrations) in pursuit of this goal. 

Contrats de travail aides refer to employment contracts and forms of employment which are subsidised, or for which tax breaks are granted. Subsidised contracts for the target groups of employment policy all entail lower social contributions on the part of employers. Aside from such financial incentives, subsidised employment contracts as well as the novel form of first hiring contract (contrat nouvelle 

64 The social partners decisions (conventions) cannot be enforced in the absence of legal approval by the government. This principle applies to rules and benefit levels. 

65 Resources, which in the past exclusively came from the central government, now also include UNEDIC s contribution (the social-partners-managed fund is financed through legal payroll contributions) as well as subsidies or the purchase of services from regional and local authorities. The possibility of having the ANPE sell services to firms has been under examination recently (2003). 

Subsidized contracts have represented one of the major areas of the French activation strategy for the last two decades. Despite the fact that their reform is widely debated for 2007-2008, they nevertheless remain one of the basic pillars of this strategy.66 

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The CNE is not only an additional model for the many forms of employment contract. Thus it does not merely complement fixed-term and permanent employment contracts nor is it a subsidised employment contract (contrat de travail aide). 

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