>The greed of the company owners/directors/management is preventing them from expanding. Obviously the law is producing unintended consequences if France is fu

>The greed of the company owners/directors/management is preventing them from expanding. Obviously the law is producing unintended consequences if France is full of 49 person companies who only exist to skirt some regulation. This is why I say the effects matter not the intent. The effect is--companies are expanding less and hiring less workers. Whether that is caused by greed or not is moot. If the law didn't exist the companies would expand, since it does exist they won't. The motives of the company are irrelevant. The end result of this law will be less economic growth for France. If the desire is to build a social safety net, why not tax some of the extra economic gain that will result from fewer labor regulations and give the money to the people directly?