SELF-ENTREPRENEURS AND THE INTERNS: ATYPICAL JOBS GENERATORS OF "FLEXICARITY"?

Abstract

The 2013 National Interprofessional Agreement (ANI) highlighted the importance of the issues
surrounding atypical employment induced by the simultaneous search of flexibility and job security
for individuals; ie “flexicurity”, according to that neologism invented ten years ago.
By atypical jobs, we mean jobs that are contrary to standard employment contract that is the unfixed
term contract; full time; exercised in the premises of the employer. For instance, part-time work,
fixed term contract and temporary work, to name the best known and most widely used atypical
jobs (which concentrate about 75 % of all atypical jobs).
However, alongside these, there are other forms of atypical employment including selfentrepreneurship and internship. Yet, these two situations are not carried out within a job
relationship. Neither the entrepreneur nor the trainee has an employment contract in the legal sense
of the term. However, the use of self-entrepreneurs and trainees constitute sources of flexibility for
companies. But do these status provide security for the individuals concerned ? The success of the
enrollment system of self-entrepreneurship and the large number of trainees deserve interest, all the
more so as they are sometimes used instead of regular employees