In Paris alone, between 18,000 and 20,000 took to the capital’s streets to express their discontent with the reform pushed by President Francois Hollande’s government, the Liberation newspaper said.
Meanwhile, the trade unions and youth organizations estimated the number of the demonstrations’ participants to stand at 110,000.
Saturday’s turnover is much lower in comparison with that on March 31, when 390,000 individuals participated in mass rallies across France, the police data revealed.
The new labor legislation would relax France’s labor laws, permitting employees to work much more than the current statutory 35-hour week, imposing a cap on damages in cases of unfair dismissal as well as removing barriers to firing employees on economic grounds.
