France Touts Work From Home in Bid to End Pension Reform Impasse
- Veran says French also protesting for better work-life balance
- Macron is under pressure as pension reform battle heats up
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France’s government is open to more concessions on its plan to raise the retirement age by two years, said spokesman Olivier Veran, hinting at a bigger work-from-home push after labor unions threatened to bring the nation to “a halt.”
“We are in listening mode and the government changed its project various times already,” Veran said in an interview Sunday on France Inter in collaboration with France Televisions and Le Monde.