Europe's Airbus is ready to pay a special bonus to its lowest-paid workers after French President Emmanuel Macron called on French companies to help tackle weeks of protests about the cost of living, according to a staff memo.
The intervention by Europe's largest aerospace firm — part-owned by the French, German and Spanish states — comes after Macron last week urged company leaders including plane-making chief and designated CEO Guillaume Faury to do more to ease the crisis.
However, Airbus — which depends primarily on exports of jetliners in competition with U.S rival Boeing — has also stressed the importance of remaining competitive and warned against focusing solely on "cyclical and pecuniary measures.
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