Remoulding workers' rights; French plastics maker puts Macron reforms to the test
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MENETOU-RATEL, France (Reuters) - Last year, Brice Thomas gathered colleagues in the finishing workshop of the French plastics factory where he works. He told them that, at a meeting with bosses, he had signed away some of their paid sick leave. "They got a bit mad," said Thomas, a workers' representative at Plasti-Tremp, a family-run business in central France.But ultimately, the workers agreed to the change and other dilutions of their employee protections because, they said, they trusted the..