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French anger looms as PM proposes holiday cuts
Banning the baguette, perhaps? Or making it compulsory to eat a sandwich at your desk at lunchtime? If you think hard enough, it is possible to imagine reform that would create more anger in France. Even so, Prime Minister François Bayrou’s plan to scrap two public holidays is right up there. Bayrou wants to reduce France’s 11 public holidays in a bid to kick-start France’s economy. Bayrou said Easter Monday had “no religious significance,” and …
Left unclear by the Prime Minister's announcements to reduce the number of agents, trade unions in the sector fear a deterioration of the "services rendered to the population".
Among the measures to reduce public spending, the Prime Minister announced the abolition of 3,000 public jobs as early as 2026 and the non-replacement of one in three public servants from 2027. Teachers' unions, who are already denouncing degraded working conditions, fear that jobs will disappear.
DECRYPTAGE - Teachers see in François Bayrou's announced abolition of two public holidays a "vexatory and punitive" measure, and fear of job cuts as of next year.
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While IHK Erfurt pleads for the abolition of a holiday, politics and trade unions oppose it.
And if we had to give up our public holidays to revive the economy? François Bayrou threw a paved stone into the pond this week by evoking the possibility of deleting two emblematic days from the French calendar: Easter Monday and May 8th. An announcement that, inevitably, makes a reaction. And not only in the corridors of the assembly. Pascal Soetens pulls out the crocs and pushes a big mouth against François Bayrou Invited to reflect on the ec…
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