French government offers compromise over retirement age and pension benefits
12 January 2020 - 16:46
Paris — The French government has signalled it is prepared to scrap an effort to raise the age at which workers can retire with full benefits to 64 in a bid to get the country’s moderate unions on board with President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan.
“I am prepared to withdraw from the bill the short-term measure which I had proposed, consisting of gradually converging from 2022 toward an equilibrium age of 64 years in 2027,” Prime Minister Edouard Philippe wrote in a letter to unions on Saturday...
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