Hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis, aeronautics is downsizing. It is essentially an industry of brains. Airbus and Safran are “engineers' boxes”. They represent on average half of "blue collar workers" and between 70 and 80% of white collar workers. They are employed in design offices, in production but also in support functions such as purchasing, quality or even relations with subcontractors. They are not spared by the workforce reductions announced by the sector.
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Airbus plans to cut 15,000 jobs, including 5,000 in France out of a total of 49,000, without excluding layoffs. For its part, the engine manufacturer Safran has, as part of a transformation house agreement, excluded any social plan despite an overstaffing representing 12,000 jobs, according to the unions, out of 45,000 in France. For the two main players in the sector, the objective is to preserve the skills they will need to bounce back from the crisis.
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