Nokia France signs an agreement with two unions to eliminate 421 positions

This workforce reduction concerns more than 18% of some 2,300 Nokia employees in France.

The French branch of Nokia, a Finnish telecommunications equipment manufacturer, has signed an agreement with two unions to cut 421 jobs, AFP learned from union representatives on Monday, December 22. This reduction in workforce concerns more than 18% of some 2,300 Nokia employees in France.

The majority CFDT and CFE-CGC unions approved on Friday a collective contractual termination plan (RCC), which concerns 78 positions on the Lannion site (Côtes-d’Armor) and 343 positions on the Paris-Saclay sites, in the Paris region. RCCs, which do not have to be justified by economic reasons, must necessarily obtain the approval of staff representatives to be implemented.

“Job cuts are never good news,” even if this plan may constitute “an opportunity” for the oldest employees, Olivier Marcé, CFE-CGC central union delegate, commented to AFP. For this staff representative, the issue is to “rejuvenate the average age of society”. Employees will be able to volunteer initially from the beginning of January 2026 and until the end of June, said Olivier Marcé, adding that the agreement still had to be validated by labor management.

The CGT union, which did not sign the agreement, for its part denounced in a leaflet “a dismantling strategy that sacrifices jobs”. The collective conventional rupture has become “an almost routine workforce management tool, allowing a series of reductions without ever questioning the industrial strategy”castigated the union organization, which had signed the two previous RCCs, in 2023 and 2024. Asked by AFP, the management of Nokia France did not react immediately.