French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced a decision to requisition workers operating petrol depots of ExxonMobil's French branch Esso and threatened to do the same for those of Total group, amid strikes that have led fuel pumps to run dry in the country.
The drastic measure came as drivers waiting in long lines to fill up their cars and gas stations closed while awaiting deliveries have become an increasingly familiar sight in France in recent days.
Requisitions allow authorities to order some of the workers of the petrol depots hit by strikes to return to work. It was not immediately clear how the order would be applied. A similar measure was imposed in 2010 during strikes in French refineries. "I asked prefects to launch the procedure to requisition workers who are indispensable to the functioning" of the Esso petrol depots, Borne said.
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