The head of France’s employers’ federation insisted on Monday that companies were making efforts to integrate employees from ethnic minorities into workforces, amid claims that jobseekers from troubled housing estates were being shunned.
Laurence Parisot, chair of the Medef employers’ body, said that French business was already “extremely involved” in attempts to integrate people from poor urban areas with disproportionately large immigrant communities, such as those hit by the recent rioting.
