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Nokia cuts 421 jobs at Paris-Saclay and Lannion sites in France
22. 12. 2025 Monday / By: Robert Denes / Business / Exact time: BST / Print this page
N okia's two major unions in France, the CFDT and the CFE-CGC, have signed a collective redundancy agreement that will result in 421 job cuts at its Paris-Saclay and Lannion sites. This represents 18% of the 2,300 employees in France.
Barely a month after Nokia announced in late November that more than 420 jobs would be cut at two French sites, Paris-Saclay and Lannion, the company's two major unions confirmed today that they have signed an agreement with management. On December 19, the CFDT and the CFE-CGC approved a joint redundancy plan (RCC) affecting 78 jobs at the Lannion site (Côtes-d'Armor) and 343 jobs at the Paris-Saclay site in the Paris region. This represents a total of 421 positions.
This workforce reduction affects more than 18% of Nokia's 2,300 employees in France. It would affect "almost all of the group's activities" in France, said Olivier Marcé, the central union representative of the CFE-CGC.
The RCCs, which do not have to be justified by economic reasons, must necessarily obtain the approval of the employee representatives to be implemented.
"Job cuts are never good news" - even if this plan could be "an option" for the longest-serving employees, stressed the union representative. The challenge for this workforce is to "renew the average age of the company." Employees will be able to take leave from the beginning of January 2026 until the end of June, Olivier Marcé said, adding that the agreement must be approved by the labor administration. He did not provide a specific budget for the agreement.
The CGT union, which did not sign the agreement, condemned in a leaflet the "job-sacrificing strategy of cuts." At the end of November, a union delegate lamented the "slow death" of the company, which has implemented a series of cost-cutting plans over the past ten years.
According to Le Monde, this is the seventh job-cutting plan in France since the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016. The CFDT, which signed this voluntary layoff plan, indicated a few weeks ago that it "does not think that (the number of jobs) would be so high." The termination of the collective agreement has become "an almost routine tool in workforce management, allowing a series of cuts without questioning the industrial strategy," criticized the union, which signed the two previous RCCs in 2023 and 2024.
"We can no longer support this kind of process," added a CGT central union representative. When contacted, Nokia France management did not immediately respond.
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