But Mr Solbes has said that making it cheaper to fire workers is not a priority.
Acts passed in 1996 and 1997 make it cumbersome and costly to fire workers.
She says many employers have Internet policies and can easily fire workers for violating them.
They have been too quick to fire workers and too slow to hire.
South African labour laws make it hard to fire workers, which deters companies from hiring them in the first place.
One sign of greater labour-market flexibility is that companies are bypassing stringent job-protection laws that make it hard to fire workers.
The second is that Britain's flexible labour market makes it easier and cheaper to fire workers than do France's more restrictive laws.
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There is not a word about making it cheaper and easier for firms to fire workers, or about encouraging selective skilled immigration.
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Rescue operations are in progress and at least six people have been taken out of the debris by army and fire workers.
Mrs Merkel believes that growth best comes from structural reforms - making it easier to hire and fire workers and opening up professions.
Some countries are introducing structural reforms - like making it easier to hire and fire workers - but such growth-boosting measures will take time.
What is needed now is not a law that allows employers to fire workers at will but one that allows for different kinds of contracts.
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The snag is that unprofitable companies, which should have been squeezed out by competition, have remained alive because it is so hard to fire workers.
Reforms to the jobs market, making it cheaper to fire workers and easier to set pay locally, will benefit Spain's economy in time but not now.
Just compare the high unemployment rates in Europe, where it is more difficult both to hire and to fire workers, with the low rate in the United States.
The aim is to protect workers, but it is likely to have the perverse effect of encouraging firms to fire workers before the costly new rules kick in.
Others will reform the tax system, make it easier for state and municipal governments to fire workers, and protect federal revenue from transfer to lower tiers of government.
The unions, supported by former cabinet ministers, are fighting a proposal to replace collective wage agreements with company-level ones, a reform that would make it easier to fire workers.
The view in Berlin is that France has been slow to embrace structural reforms like making it easier to hire and fire workers that would, in the long term, boost growth.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti are both tackling labour reform - mainly making it easier to hire and fire workers - as their next step.
Workers rights groups say the proposed "majority sign-up" law would reduce opportunities for employers to threaten or fire workers wanting a union, said spokeswoman Zoe Bridges-Curry of the advocacy group American Rights at Work.
This pressure on foreign companies only mounted as the financial crisis caused several companies to rethink their global operations only to discover it is now much harder to fire workers in their Chinese subsidiaries.
The so-called Lisbon Agenda called on EU governments to implement a range of economic and social changes, including tax cuts, reform of heath care and pension systems, and making it easier for companies to hire and fire workers.
But trade-union rules make it difficult to hire and fire workers, lower-paid jobs for the less skilled are hard to come by, and a combination of high taxes on low incomes and generous welfare payments reduces the incentive to seek work at all.
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This is why Mr Hollande will start by cutting the retirement age for some workers to 60, putting the top marginal income-tax rate up to 75%, raising taxes on wealth, inheritance and dividends, increasing the minimum wage and making it much harder for employers to fire workers.
Meanwhile President Hollande won election on a platform that made no concessions to the deep structural challenges facing the French economy, promising to lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 for some workers, introduce a new top rate of tax of 75% for the highest earners and make it even harder to fire workers.
We are very much the Cinderellas of public sector pay levels, and we have increasingly fallen behind the private sector and other public sector workers, such as NHS staff and the fire union workers' settlement, for example.
Some employers say there might not be enough qualified disabled workers in their fields to meet that target and that they may have to fire nondisabled workers to achieve the ratio.
They did not fire any workers, and they improved quality, which reduced warranty costs.
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