PARIS (Reuters) - A major French trade union is to boycott a labour summit designed to combat record unemployment and others threatened to follow suit on Monday as ruling Socialist officials accused employers of giving nothing in return for billions of euros in tax credits.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the two-day summit should launch reforms including greater use of apprenticeships and simplify a 3,200-page labour code to ease rules on worker representation which firms say are too costly and complex.
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