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Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ... by lazyasciiart on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:05PM (#35061942)
Those are not pensions. The 401k system is explicitly an alternative to the older pension systems. Words mean things.
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Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ... by jbn on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:57AM (#35096027)
but these are pensions, more specifically they are supplemental pensions on top of the basic one like US social security, or France's basic pension from SS (which is supplemented by "complementary pension" from other regimes like AGIRC/ARRCO).
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