Germany is also an issue. At a previous job, we completely moved all development work from Munich to Dublin because the added headaches caused by hiring/firing in Germany were enormous.
Our story is similar, though we've chosen other employer-reasonable locations. Netherlands was moderately bad (better than France, though); Switzerland is reasonable.
Do France and Germany have the concept of the "contractor" worker, where the company can just call the contracting firm and say we don't need the developer anymore?
