Funny how that works innit.
This escalated quickly…
French Police go on strike. Complain about be overworked and being owed backpay.
“The French government on Tuesday proposed giving 300-euro (£270) bonuses to officers deployed to the protests by the yellow vest movement that started in mid-November.
French President Emmanuel Macron committed to the idea of protest duty pay earlier this month.
However, police representatives, who opened talks on Tuesday with the Interior Ministry, want compensation for years of overtime duty never paid out. Talks were to continue Wednesday.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the sum amounts to nearly 275 million euros (£248million), and includes decades of unpaid overtime, but suggested demands would eventually be met.
‘We don’t have a right to have a debt like that,’ the minister said Tuesday. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire agreed, saying Wednesday on BFMTV that ‘it seems legitimate that they be paid.’
France’s national police have long complained about being overworked, under-appreciated and underpaid, and have tried to press their cause in the past to no avail.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6512197/French-Blue-Vest-police-protesters-deliberately-slow-passport-controls-Paris-airport.html