Alexandre Saubot: “Employment has become the last adjustment variable in companies”

2023-06-09 08:27:16

Even if we are very far from those of the 1970s, the workforce in industry has increased by a few thousand every quarter since the beginning of 2017, apart from the Covid period. What changed ?

First, with consistency since 2015 and the El Khomri law, since supplemented by the Macron ordinances or the reduction in production taxes, we are implementing a supply policy that provides responses adapted to the needs of companies. We have always said that French industry suffered neither from a lack of talent nor from a lack of desire, but from a lack of resources, too high labor costs or useless rigidities.