While unemployment has had unprecedented progress in France for ten years, here are the sectors in which there are most job cuts.
THE Social plans fall in cascade. The CGT lists more than 300 In the country since September 2023 with a strong acceleration from last autumn. Wonderful sectors are hard.
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The car
Agency of sales, high energy costs, difficult transition to electrical competition … The automotive industry is in the crises and eliminates the positions one after the other. We currently count 1,250 in Michelin, 868 in Valeo or 250 at Stellantis, and the prospects for the sector on the old continent are disturbing.
Chemistry
The chemical sector plans victims of energy costs to remove “15,000 jobs” over 200,000 within three years. Solvay, Syensqo, Wylchem Lamotte, Exxonmobil, Vancorex have announced the reduction in staff. Here, too, the phenomenon is not limited to France. Unilever, Evonik, BASF also reduce the sail on the Rhine.
Space
The defense and Airbus world space branch with 35,000 employees will be the subject of a “reduction in the number of positions by up to 2,500” in 2026. The spatial -leading spatial branch must be dealt with in particular with the SpaceX competition, which won orders for telecommunications satellites. In turn, Thales ensures a frightening plan within the group of 1,300 positions from his Thales Alenia Space Space Branch, including 1,000 in France.
Big distribution
After the sale of almost all supermarkets and hypermarkets Casino, a job protection plan that could affect more than 3,000 positions is underway. Angan plans to remove 2,389 of 54,000 in France. The group, whose costs are too high, are subject to changes in this sector, competition from hard disk chains and e-commerce.
The building
The French building association (FFB) estimates that the activity of the sector in 2024 should fall back by 6.6 %, which was sealed by the support of the new buildings, especially the apartment. According to her, 100,000 jobs are threatened in 2025.