Hundreds of thousands of workers are gearing up for another round of protests on Tuesday (7 March), hoping to bring "France to a standstill" in their continued resistance to the government's proposed pension reform that would most notably raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.
But for the country's over three million 'precarious workers' the retirement age has long been 67, if they ever do retire.
While precarious work has...
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Sorana Horsia writes about politics and international affairs for Radio Free Europe Romania and is a freelance fact checker at NewsGuard. She is a graduate of political sciences and Eastern European studies from Sciences Po Paris, and she is currently completing her final year of a master's degree in Journalism and Human Rights at Sciences Po Paris.
Kelly Smits is an early-career journalist in her final semester of a joint master’s program at Sciences Po Paris, studying journalism and environmental policy.
Sorana Horsia writes about politics and international affairs for Radio Free Europe Romania and is a freelance fact checker at NewsGuard. She is a graduate of political sciences and Eastern European studies from Sciences Po Paris, and she is currently completing her final year of a master's degree in Journalism and Human Rights at Sciences Po Paris.