A legal battle over the right to strike is looming in France after a top union boss said he would go to the courts to stop the government from forcing oil refinery employees back to work.
On Wednesday, the French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced the government was prepared to order staff at depots run by Exxon's Esso France unit back to work, with similar measures possible at TotalEnergies sites, if wage talks between bosses and unions fail to deliver a solution.
