Myriam El Khomri was born on 18 February 1978 in Rabat. Her father is Moroccan and her mother is from Brittany. Until the age of nine, she lived in Tangier. She then moved with her family to Thouars and then to Mérignac. In 1995, she studied public law at the Montesquieu University. She finances her studies with scholarships and holding several jobs. In 1999, she moved to Paris and continued her law studies at the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne University, where she obtained a specialized graduate diploma in political science in 2001.
She was appointed, from August 26, 2014, Secretary of State for City Policy in the Second Valls government. The policy having been defined by the law constructed by François Lamy in the Ayrault government, she concentrates its action on communication. She made its first public appearance in Nantes on September 7, 2014 on the occasion of the foundation of the collective "Pas sans nous", coordination of groups of working-class neighborhoods and then increased travel in the field, especially in the municipalities run by the National Front.
Minister of Labour
On September 2, 2015, Myriam El Khomri was appointed Minister of Labor, Employment, Vocational Training and Social Dialogue, after the resignation of this post from François Rebsamen. As when she was appointed to the Secretary of State for the City, she was the subject of critical comments, sometimes racist and sexist, on social networks. She is responsible for presenting at the beginning of 2016 a controversial bill reforming the legislation relating to work, with in particular a flexibilisation of working time, the bases of the future personal activity account, measures on occupational medicine and provisions on the restructuring of professional branches.She plans to include provisions to protect self-employed workers on collaborative platforms like Uber. The Law sparks strike action. In 2016, the French cabinet gave the prime ministerManuel Valls permission to bypass parliament and enact a sweeping set of labour reforms known widely as the El Khomri law.
After government
On December 8, 2016, Myriam El Khomri was invested by PS's activists for the 2017 legislative elections in the 18th constituency of Paris. She calls to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round. La République En Marche! does not oppose him a candidate during the legislative elections that follow despite the mobilization of party activists against this hypothesis. She announced that she wanted to carry the values of the left within the presidential majority and faced Pierre-Yves Bournazel, LR's candidate, who also said he supported the presidential majority. She was beaten at the end of the second round, with 53.6% against 46.4%. She then converted to the consulting field by creating in November 2017 a business consultancy, MEK Conseil. In May 2018, she also became senior advisor to Lee Hecht Harrison Altedia, then in March 2019, she joined the insurance brokerage group Siaci Saint Honoré as director of the Consulting division of its consulting and strategy subsidiary S2H Consulting. In March 2018, she performed with Roselyne Bachelot and Marlène Schiappa a representation of The Vagina Monologues at the Bobino theater. The profits of the show go to the Feminist Collective against rape. In July 2019, the Minister of Solidarity and Health Agnès Buzyn appoints Myriam El Khomri to head a mission on the attractiveness of professions in the elderly, with the aim of combating the shortage of personnel in this sector.
