THE TIME HAS COME FOR A FRENCH COUNCIL ON JOBS AND COMPETITIVENESS!

With 3 million unemployed people, France urgently needs to set a Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to provide advice to the President and Prime Minister on strengthening the French economy; ensuring the country's competitiveness and on ways to create jobs, opportunity and prosperity for the French people. The Jobs Council would be made up of members appointed by the President and the Prime Minister from among distinguished citizens outside the Government, including citizens chosen to serve as representatives of the various sectors of the economy to offer the diverse perspectives of the private sector,employers, and workers on how the Government can best foster growth, competitiveness, and job creation.

The Jobs Council would

1. Solicit ideas from across the country about how to bolster the economy and the prosperity of the French people that can inform the decision making of the President and the Prime Minister.
2.  Report directly to the President and the Prime Minister on the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies to promote the growth of the French economy, enhance the skills and education of French people, maintain a stable and sound financial and banking system, createv stable jobs for French workers and improve the long term prosperity and competitiveness of the French people, and
3. Provide analysis and information with respect to the operation, regulation, and healthy functioning of the economy and other factors that may contribute to the sustainable growth and competitiveness of the French industry and the French labor force.

The Jobs Council would work collaboratively with all agencies and all offices toward the fulfillment of these goals.

France has lost more industrial jobs than any other country over the last decade and labor unions expect France to cut as many as 45,000 jobs in the months ahead. President Hollande rode to power vowing to tackle surging unemployment. The French government is said to be fully mobilized. That's good news! Now the time has come a French Council on Jobs and Competitiveness that will provide sound recommendations across the board, from all parties to get the job done!