Posted Jan 26, 2023, 10:44 AM “Get even more strikers” is the watchword of the CGT, which is mobilizing its troops this Thursday and Friday against the pension reform. The union thus wants to extend the massive demonstration last Thursday, which brought down between 1 million (according to the government) and 2 million (according to […]
Unemployment insurance, reform within reform
Posted Jan 26, 2023, 5:00 PM How to subscribe to The Story? It’s not just pension reform on the table, there’s also that of unemployment insurance. Unemployment continues to decline in France. It reached more than 10% in 2015, it currently stands at just over 7% of the active population. In the fourth quarter of […]
The morale of the French remains at half mast, still weighed down by inflation
Posted Jan 27, 2023, 10:07 AMUpdated on Jan 27, 2023 at 10:25 a.m. No improvement in sight in the morale of French households at the start of the year. After a year 2022 weighed down by a sudden darkening of the economic situation, against a backdrop of war in Ukraine and inflation, the INSEE indicator […]
Productivity at work fell in France in 2022
Posted Jan 26, 2023, 6:00 PMUpdated on Jan 27, 2023 at 12:07 This was already the case in 2020 and 2021. The year 2022 is no exception: labor productivity has stalled in France, in the non-agricultural market sector. Per capita productivity lost 3% in the third quarter of 2022, compared to 2019, reveals a study […]
A digital plan at school to tackle the “illectronism” of young people
The digital divide does not only concern older people. Also, the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye wants to rearm the school. He must present this Friday, January 27 a plan to “enhancing students’ digital skills”. Both to acquire adequate online behavior – and to fight against cyber-harassment – but also skills. The “digital native”, that […]
Djokovic’s father decides not to attend his son’s Australian Open semi-final after controversy with pro-Russian fans
New controversy for Novak Djokovic in Australia. Srdjan Djokovic, the father of the Serbian tennis player, is at the heart of a controversy, after being filmed with a man waving a pro-Russian flag. Faced with the scale of the dispute, he announced this Friday, January 27 that he was giving up going to the stadium […]
In Places, on Netflix: Simply Funny
CHRONICLE – After simply blackhere is Jean-Pascal Zadi again in a political series on Netflix: In place. A delight. Politics is too serious a thing not to give rise to comical films or series – in appearance. Take In place, signed Jean-Pascal Zadi and François Uzan (on Netflix), who says true and profound things wrapped […]
Value sharing: negotiations between unions and employers are finally starting
Posted Jan 26, 2023, 6:52 PMUpdated Jan 26, 2023, 6:57 PM The political pressure is there, with economy and budget ministers regularly promising an “employee dividend” and the Renaissance party working on proposals. But it will have taken nine meetings since last November for the negotiation on the sharing of the value imposed by the […]
Ukraine threatens to boycott Paris 2024 Olympics if Russia takes part
Ukraine threatened on Thursday January 26 to boycott the Olympic Games scheduled for 2024 in Paris if Russian and Belarusian athletes were invited there, in the face of Moscow’s invasion of the country launched in February 2022. This possibility was mentioned this Thursday by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who said she wanted Russian […]
The government wants to “re-examine” the drug financing model
Posted Jan 26, 2023, 5:25 PMUpdated on Jan 26, 2023 at 7:10 PM The government wants to “re-examine” the drug financing model. The executive has instructed a panel of health industry experts to make initial proposals, within three months, on how the state could otherwise regulate their prices. All this to avoid shortages and guarantee […]