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French PM brings forward hike in minimum wage to calm protesters

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French PM brings forward hike in minimum wage to calm protesters

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said ​on Monday, November 9, he was bringing forward a planned 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.

Unions swiftly dismissed the offer as "crumbs".