During a social and economic committee, the management of the leading tourist operator in France announced plans to cut up to 583 jobs due to the effects of the coronavirus crisis. 

The management of TUI France, the leading tourist operator in France, announced Wednesday during an extraordinary social and economic committee (ESC) to want to cut up to 583 positions due to the effects of the coronavirus crisis, or two-thirds of its workforce, AFP learned from concordant sources.

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"It's terrible"

"The project presented today in CSE provides for the abolition of 317 positions", a figure which will rise to 583 positions taking into account the 65 own agencies ("integrated") that the company intends to franchise or sell, said the management in a press release, confirming information obtained from union sources.

"It's terrible for us," reacted to AFP Lazare Razkallah, secretary of the CSE.