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The protests are against a bill that would relax France's labor laws, permitting employees to work much more than the current statutory 35-hour week, imposing a cap on damages in cases of unfair dismissal as well as removing barriers to firing employees on economic grounds.
Over 250 protest rallies are planned across the country with hundreds of thousands of people expected to participate, The Local France reported Thursday.
On March 24, ten police officers were injured and 45 people were detained after students and labor union activists took to the streets of Paris and several other French cities. About 43,000 people participated in the rallies that day.
know if it's the fault of the government or that the French have lost their work ethic. When I was in Paris
it looked to me like they were in a phase of decline (started years ago) which they had accepted and were not doing much about it.