France offers some pension concessions but striking continues

French state railway company SNCF employees watch and listen to the French prime minister unveiling the details of a pension reform plan on December 11 2019, in Paris. Picture: AFP/PHILIPPE LOPEZFrance’s prime minister insisted on Wednesday that the government would push ahead with reforms to the country’s fragmented pension system but offered concessions to unions as a crippling strike entered its seventh day.

And the prime minister said the legal retirement age would remain 62, although an additional two years of work would be required from 2027 for people to leave with a full pension. French unions have vowed to resist until the plan is withdrawn, in the biggest show of union force since President Emmanuel Macron came to power in 2017 vowing to cut public spending and make the economy more competitive.

The protests brought 339,000 people out on the streets around France on Tuesday and some 800,000 on the first day of the labour action last Thursday, according to official estimates.

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