French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday ordered several baguettes in front of cameras at a village bakery in a public display of support for a bill to allow bakeries and florists to open on May Day, a sacrosanct holiday for French workers, if they volunteer to work in writing and are paid double wages. The country's main trade unions oppose the bill.
Let them eat baguette: French bakeries enjoy May Day exemption
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