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French Police Teargas Thousands Protesting Labor Reforms

  • French high school and university students fall as they retreat while they take part in a demonstration against the labour reform bill proposal in Paris, France, March 24, 2016.

    French high school and university students fall as they retreat while they take part in a demonstration against the labour reform bill proposal in Paris, France, March 24, 2016. | Photo: Reuters

Published 24 March 2016
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Marches were also held in other French cities like Toulouse, southern France, where dozens of demonstrators blocked roads.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris, France Thursday to express their dissent with labor reforms that they believe will leave many of them jobless.

The protesters could be heard shouting “Resistance!” before plumes of smoke broke out and people began running, RT reported.

“To dream of a job or to dream of unemployment?” read some of the banners carried by the demonstrators.

The rally started in the Montparnasse, in the central area of the city as the French Council of Ministers was due to discuss the new labor reform.

Marches were also held in other French cities like Toulouse, southern France, where dozens of demonstrators blocked roads.

The rallies against labor reforms were called on social media under the hastag #Manif24mars, recent surveys suggest that 71 percent of French people oppose the reform.

The labor law reforms, proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri earlier this month, are supposedly aimed at fighting high unemployment by, among other measures, cutting overtime pay for work over 35 hours a week, which basically means that employers would pay only 10 percent of overtime bonus, instead of the current 25 percent.

An Odoxa survey for the French newspaper Le Parisien revealed that 71 percent of people are against the reform.

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