Locking horns with unions over pension system had put previous French governments on the hot seat.
In 1995, unions staged three weeks of strikes that paralyzed the country and forced then Prime Minister Alain Juppe to drop retirement reform plan and a program of welfare cutbacks, and resign.
The country's largest movement since 1968 forced then President Jacques Chirac to abandon the reform and dissolve the National Assembly.
More than two decades later, labor unions brought transport networks to a standstill on Thursday and Friday and staged country-wide street protests which drew at least 806,000 people angry at the planned pension reform.
A new day of strikes and rallies are planned on Dec. 10.
"Everybody in the street on Tuesday ... for a new day... of strikes, actions and protests," Catherine Perret, a representative of General Confederation of Labour was quoted by local media as saying.
"They (the government officials) have failed to measure to extent of the social discontent in our country and they'd better to come up with answers a little faster," she added.
On Friday, train traffic and metro networks were heavily disrupted for the second day as nearly a third of rail workers were on strike.
The state-run railway operator SNCF has cancelled 90 percent of high-speed TGV trains frequencies, while only three out of 10 regional trains operate.
On the Paris metro, nine out of 16 lines are completely shut and services severely limited on five others.
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