PoliticsFrench PM brings forward minimum-wage increase to calm protests

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Monday that a planned minimum-wage increase would take effect in December instead of January, seeking to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has triggered some of France’s worst civil unrest in years. Unions quickly dismissed the offer as “crumbs.”

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