Of the 6,000 hires announced last January, Airbus plans to recruit 1,500 people in France by the end of June 2022, including 800 in Toulouse, the European aircraft manufacturer said on Thursday. The aircraft manufacturer also intends to recruit 1,500 people in Germany, 750 in the United Kingdom, 750 in Spain and 1,500 in the rest of the world, the group said.
“To these 1,500 recruitments in France will also be added 1,500 temporary workers and 1,500 trainees and work-study students,” said Airbus human resources director for France, Mikaël Butterbach, to La Dépêche du Midi. The aircraft manufacturer adds that it will review its hiring needs at the end of the first half, probably upwards.
On January 19, the group announced the recruitment of around 6,000 people in the first part of 2022 and the reassessment of its needs during the year, in particular to support the ramp-up of its production after the Covid-19 crisis. 19. These hirings concern all the activities of the group (commercial aircraft, defense and space, helicopters), had further indicated the aircraft manufacturer.
The number of job cuts revised downwards
The paralysis of air traffic at the start of the pandemic had plunged the aeronautics sector into a serious crisis, leading Airbus to reduce its production rates by 40% from April 2020 and to announce 15,000 job cuts. The figure had finally been revised downwards, thanks in particular to public aid such as the partial unemployment schemes set up in France or Germany, the main countries in which the aircraft manufacturer is established. In the end, the number of group employees fell from 135,000 at the end of 2019 to nearly 126,500 at the end of 2021.