France has established spetsfond for training the unemployed.

KommentariiObratnaya tyaga31.03.2009Borba to the crisis led to protest actions of disaffected rabochihPravitelstvo France established a special fund to finance the retraining of unemployed citizens during the economic crisis. The statement was made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, said AFP. Capitalization of the fund will be 1.5 billion euros.
The new fund will be jointly managed by the largest labor unions and the government appointed managers. His responsibilities will include not only funding for the retraining of specialists, but also provide cash benefits those Frenchmen who, for whatever reason can not receive unemployment benefits in full. The amount of benefits up to 500 euro per person.
During the first two months of 2009 the number of officially registered unemployed in France has reached 2.3 million, an increase of 170 thousand people. Worst hit industrial and automobile sectors. Rising unemployment has led to discontent of French workers who have become increasingly organize protests and seize top managers hostage.
Recall from the beginning of the year in the mercy of the French workers had visited the heads of the companies Sony, 3M, Caterpillar and Scapa.