AP 1/28/2023
People gather on Place de la Republique during a demonstration against proposed pension changes, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023
in Paris. France's prime minister insisted that the government's plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is "no longer
negotiable," further angering parliamentary opponents and unions that plan new mass protests and disruptive strikes
Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly,
France’s prime minister insisted Sunday that the government’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is “no longer negotiable,” further angering parliamentary opponents and unions who plan new mass protests and disruptive strikes this week.
Raising the pension age is one part of a broad bill that is the flagship measure of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. The bill is meeting widespread popular resistance — more than 1 million people marched against it earlier this month — and misunderstanding about what it will mean for today’s French workers.
In an interview with France-Info radio broadcast Sunday, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the age “is no longer negotiable.”
Retirement at 64 and a lengthening of the number of years needed to earn a full pension “is the compromise that we proposed after having heard employers’ organizations and unions,” she said.
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