The critically weak score on eligibility drags down an otherwise partially favourable result on labour market access. France is the only MIPEX country which scores a perfect 0% on migrants' eligibility to work (see box). It would attain best practice on labour market integration measures if it established more policy targets and guidelines for fair, timely and affordable recognition of migrants' skills and foreign qualifications. Migrant workers would also enjoy a security of employment that meets best practice if all but seasonal permits were renewable, as is the case in ten MIPEX countries. Rights associated would also meet best practice if migrant workers could be elected to the Chamber of Commerce, ‘Prud'homme' councils, and the Chamber of Trades. They had the right to vote in the latter until 2004, when this became limited to EU/EEA citizens. France is the only MIPEX country to make such restrictions on migrants' rights to participate in work-related negotiation bodies.
