Pensions are a big area that needs reform, but this needs careful planning if anything is to be changed. “Greater alignment ...

Capital gains tax is “ripe for reform”, a leading think tank has said, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves considers possible revenue raisers ahead of October’s Budget. With a range of potential tax ...

France's hard-left CGT union elected Sophie Binet as its first woman leader on Friday and she vowed to continue her organisation's fight with the government over pension reform.

But the tax-free allowance on capital gains has reduced in recent years from £12,300 to £6,000 in April 2023, and slashed ...

Gathering of several trade unions, called by the CGT as part of the fight against pension reform, on the petrochemical site of Lavéra, in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône), January 26, 2023.

ALAIN JOCARD / AFP. Protesters take part in a torch-lit march called by the CGT workers' union to protest the French government's pensions reform plan, on the Canebière in Marseille, France, on ...

Protesters, holding CGT labour union flags, attend a demonstration during the ninth day of nationwide strikes and protests against French government's pension reform, in Nice, France, March 23 ...

Pension reform protests resume in France after talks fail ... About 400,000 people joined the protest in Paris Thursday, down from 450,000 the week before, said the powerful CGT union.

Strikes in the French power sector on Jan. 26 and Jan. 27 against planned pension reform will lead to lower electricity output in nuclear and hydro-power, a CGT union representative said on Wednesday.

The hardline CGT union claimed a half-million people marched through Paris and other towns across the country. Authorities, however, said just 57,000 people turned out for the demonstrations ...

The French government has forced through controversial plans to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64, a move likely to inflame the country’s weeks-long protest movement.