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To appreciate the context one must consider the much higher standards for employment. https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/employment-law/comparison-between-usa-and-france-employment-employment-law-essay.php https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/employment-law/co... > "...the French law regulates much more heavily all the aspects of employment conditions than the United States: Only a few forms of employment contracts exist in the French legal system, whereas the American law allows the two parties – the employer and the employee- to agree on almost every aspect of the contract freely, as soon as the contract is respecting the same principles and regulations set by the American law for contracts. > The French legal system also regulates more strictly the aspects related to the execution of an employment contract, the work duration, the remuneration and the contract termination. > The social tendency of the French legal system to protect the employees is in clear contrast here with the American employment, contracting and competing freedom principles." Uber is seen as an attempt to escape the relatively fixed labor agreement.