Macron Defends French Labor Law Revamp in Face of Jobs Emergency
- Hollande's proposals would gut 35-hour work week, ease firing
- `The plan for France cannot be to change nothing,' Macron says
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French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron defended the government’s plans to overhaul the nation’s labor law, rebuffing a revolt from within the ruling Socialist Party by suggesting opponents are resisting all change in the face of an unemployment crisis.
“The plan for France cannot be to change nothing,” Macron said in an interview published Sunday in le Journal du Dimanche. “We cannot say we have tried everything to fight unemployment because it’s not true. We cannot declare a state of emergency on the economy and then do nothing to the labor market.”