You either fire an employee because you can't afford him (1), or because he doesn't do his job well (2), or because you can't stand the fact that he slept with your daughter (3). (4) is a non-issue, meant to manipulate the reader.
It's for the (3) that the CPE will be felt most ... and why we need to fight against it. As Jérôme pointed out, it's being increasingly resorted to by French companies, so with the CPE it'll all be (3): "I don't like your shoes" ... "You have bad breath" ... "What? You don't like rugby?"
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(source: http://liberation.com/page.php?Article=370253&Template=GALERIE&Objet=62344)
... was in the loud group of students (guy holding the microphone) I show in my anti-CPE demonstration picture diary:
ps: I'll be joining in today's demonstration (13:00), but still haven't decided whether I'll be taking pictures (it may rain, and since I prefer to go with my bike -this ensures more mobility- and that the last time this proved difficult to handle while taking pictures, I might just leave the camera at home).