France's President Francois Hollande (R) congratulates members of France's European basketball championship team at the Elysee Palace in Paris, September 23, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
PARIS (Reuters) - French trade unions and employers began a fresh attempt on Tuesday to make a training system that absorbs billions of euros a year more effective in equipping people to fill hundreds of thousands of vacant jobs.
Socialist President Francois Hollande has told the two sides to draw up reform plans by year-end, after the European Commission in May singled out job training as a major factor contributing to joblessness above 10 percent.
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