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France brings forward minimum wage increase in bid to quell unrest
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French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Monday he was bringing forward a planned 1.6 percent hike in the minimum wage to December from January, as he sought to defuse a cost-of-living crisis that has sparked some of France's worst civil unrest in years.
It comes as Lecornu meets labour groups on Monday in a bid to find solutions to the cost-of-living crisis.
France 24's Rochelle Ferguson has more.
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