Story continues below…The proposed labour reforms are aimed at making the job market more flexible and reducing unemployment, stubbornly high at around 10 percent. The French parliament definitively adopted a set of contentious labour reforms on Thursday which sparked months of violentprotests against a package seen as a threat to cherished workers' rights. Valls praised "a great step for the reform of our country: more rights for workers, more visibility for our small and medium enterprises and more jobs." Photo: AFPAFP · 22 Jul 2016, 08:12Published: 22 Jul 2016 08:12 GMT+02:00After months of violent street protests and friction between unions and the government, the French parliament has definitively adopted a set of controversial labour reforms. After a lengthy bicameral shuttle the reforms were considered adopted on Thursday afternoon after no lawmakers called a vote of no confidence in the government.

Source: The Local July 22, 2016 06:11 UTC