Bleeding
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Michelin, Auchan, Vencorex… after several years of apparent calm, threats to employment are increasing and worrying unions and employers alike. With, for the moment, limited effects on the unemployment rate.
Will we see Michel Barnier marching behind a CGT banner? The announcement in quick succession, Monday and Tuesday, of massive social plans in two large French companies, Auchan and Michelin (3,650 job cuts between them), provokes numerous government reactions… in words at least. “I am concerned to know what we did in these groups with the public money we gave them. And so we are going to ask questions and we will see if this money was used well or poorly to learn lessons from it,” warned the Prime Minister on Tuesday November 5 in the National Assembly. “Legitimate question”, said this Thursday, November 7, his Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand. These words were nevertheless accompanied, the next day, by a backpedaling from the government spokesperson, Maud Bregeon: “There is no question today of asking everyone to reimburse, that was not the initial contract.”
Inconsistent exits at this stage therefore, but which still reflect a shock, France having seemed spared by such announcements since the end of the health crisis. However, it has been a few months since employers and unions began to warn of a reversal. In May, the CGT released a first
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