The simple fact is, no company should ever be legally obliged to provide anyone with employment (with the exception of contracted employees).
It's bull**** quasi-politics used by governments to make it look like they're improving the economy because employment is down, when really the economy is still going to **** and it's just that companies are too scared to fire anyone because they'll end up with 10k students standing outside whining about how "he was only 5hrs late for work one time".
And yes, I do have something against students. Specifically, the ones who take protesting as some kind of carte-blanche for voicing their bull****, utopian ideals about subjects that don't ****ing affect them in any way, shape or form and are purely and completely academic.
The only people who're gonna be affected by this change in the law are ****-ups. The same kind of ****-ups who'll go skiving off work to attend a ****ing protest march. You do your ****ing job, keep your **** together and do what you're being paid to do and you keep your job.
And to be perfectly honest, students are the last people who need employment. Just because they're wasting thousands on education doesn't give them any special privileges when it comes to employment. They don't need to go to University - it's a luxury.
And, might I add, they're completely ignoring the fact that young people can find jobs infinitely more easily than older people. So all they're doing by passing this law and making them easier to fire is ensuring that when an older person does manage to get a job, they're more likely to keep it because the young guy they work with is just easier for the management to fire.