This is a document that shows the magnitude of the job loss that has been occurring in France for almost 15 months. The CGT presented on Wednesday afternoon a map of France listing all jobs lost or threatened between September 2023 and November 2024.
In total, the union organization counts 286 employment reduction plans. And few geographical areas are spared from the phenomenon that especially affects the Grand Est, Upper France, Normandy, the Rhône Valley and a good part of the Atlantic coast.
The secondary sector is greatly affected by this wave of social plans, as 210 industrial sites have been identified. Specifically, 70,586 are directly threatened or even eliminated, of which 30,870 correspond solely to the industry. Considering the indirect repercussions on the industry, the CGT estimates that the number of jobs affected varies within a range of 128,250 to 200,330.
Metallurgy is especially affected
In detail, the map shows the great difficulties of the metallurgical sector since it alone includes 13,000 direct jobs eliminated or threatened. This is almost double what the chemical industries and their 7,000 direct jobs are eliminating or threatening. These two sectors of activity illustrate the industrial crisis that has been observed for several years in the automobile sector and that is spreading among equipment manufacturers.
For its part, the tertiary sector is not left out since commerce has seen the loss of nearly 10,000 direct jobs, to which 6,000 are added in the banking and insurance sector. The same is true of the public sector and, more particularly, the health and social sectors recently hit by a resurgence of job cuts plans.
As such, this acceleration is a generally observed trend, as no fewer than 120 job elimination plans were implemented during the period from July to November 2024, the vast majority of which (99) since the start of the school year . Among the most popular are those announced by Auchan and Michelin at the beginning of the month or more recently by ArcelorMittal.
Source: BFM TV
