France does not want to treat its workers like the UK and US, with zero hours contracts and no protection for the unemployed, Philippe Martinez, the head of the hardline CGT, France's biggest trade union, has said.
France's PSA, maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars, said Tuesday that it would take advantage of President Emmanuel Macron's more flexible labour laws to offer 1,300 voluntary redundancies as Europe's second-largest carmaker restructures its operations.
After months of violent street protests and friction between unions and the government, the French parliament has definitively adopted a set of controversial labour reforms.
France's controversial new labour laws look set to be pushed through parliament today without a vote, as demonstrators get ready to protest once again.
Protests against government labour reforms took place across France on Thursday, but the focus was on Paris where thousands gathered amid tight security.
Anti-labour reforms protesters will march through Paris once again on Thursday, surrounded by 2,000 police, who will have the job of preventing any more outbreaks of violence.
UPDATED: A rolling strike by French rail workers on Wednesday caused travel disruption for many as around half of train services were cancelled across the country.
UPDATED: The fuel crisis in France worsened on Thursday with deliveries to petrol stations getting more difficult due to a nationwide day of protest against labour reforms.
The battle between the hardline CGT union and the French government over the labour reforms has been described a sa fight to the death. Who will emerge as winners?
Workers at France's nuclear power plants joined a fresh round of strikes against labour reforms on Thursday that will see rail services and flights disrupted and fuel supplies hit.
After having succeeded in provoking fuel shortages, French trade unions now want to turn their attention to the country's electricity supplies as they attempt to up the ante against the government and its labour reforms.
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday ruled out withdrawing the labour market reforms which have sparked street protests for weeks and led to a vote of no-confidence in the government.
As France witnessed more violent protests and the government faced a vote of no-confidence Bertrand Chokrane, a company boss in France says the now empty labour bill simply shows the world that's it's impossible to reform France.
The French government will face opposition both inside and outside parliament on Thursday as the anger over its labour reforms bill and how the reforms were forced through parliament continues to grow.
Several trade unions in France have called for two days of strikes next week as the government faces a no-confidence vote in parliament over its unpopular labour reforms bill that was forced through parliament this week without a vote.
As expected the French government pushed through its unpopular raft of labour reform without a vote in parliament, after it became clear it does have enough support among its own party.
The French citizens' movement "Nuit debout" that has been holding a nightly sit-in in central Paris for more than a month called on Saturday for demonstrations on May 15th around Europe and the world.
Leftist trade unions and bosses' unions have both been left fuming over France's labour reforms, which finally went before parliament on Tuesday. Here are the main reasons to explain the almighty hullaballoo.
An estimated 170,000 protesters took to the streets of France on Thursday, in a new round of violent protests against the French government’s planned labour reforms.
The latest round of protests against labour laws in France will once again hit travellers in the French capital with flights cancelled or delayed and RER services cut.
