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Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing a historic assault on jobs, wages and labor legislation, to be rammed through by presidential decree in the face of overwhelming public opposition.
Details of Macron's plans emerged Monday in the run-up to his meetings Tuesday with trade union and business representatives at the Elysée Palace.
After next month's legislative elections, Macron will demand an enabling act from parliament authorizing the president to decree changes in French labor law. "The reform of the Labor Code has been well planned," incoming Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told the
Journal du Dimanche. "We will now discuss it to enrich it and explain it. This means discussions with the trade unions, which are indispensable, and a parliamentary discussion which will take place during the vote on the enabling act that will allow the government to impose decrees in a context defined by the parliament."
Philippe said that he and Labor Minister Muriel Pénicaud would work closely with the trade unions and meet bilaterally with each of the major union confederations. "But once the discussion has taken place," he added, "we will have to act fast. We cannot wait two years to finish the job. Emmanuel Macron has heard the anger of the French people. He also knows how urgent it is to transform the country."
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