At the end of the health crisis, the Finnish telephone equipment manufacturer Nokia indicated that it wanted to cut more than 1,200 positions in its French subsidiary. An announcement that immediately made Bercy jump. At the microphone of Europe 1, Thierry Boisnon, the president of Nokia France, assures however that the Hexagon will remain a privileged site for the group.

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Nokia will cut 1,233 jobs at its French subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent International, or one third of the workforce. The telephone equipment manufacturer wants to reduce its costs at the end of the Covid-19 crisis, which represents the abolition of 831 positions in Nozay in Essonne and 402 in Lannion in Côtes-d'Armor. But the government has asked the company to significantly improve this social plan.

"This plan is important because we need to rationalize research and development activities on a global scale", explains Europe 1 microphone Thierry Boisnon, president of Nokia France. "We need to reach sustainable profitability levels in a competitive market," he argues. The world leader in mobile phone construction from 1998 to 2011, Nokia has since lost ground to competition from Samsung and Apple.

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Nokia will remain "a major and strategic player in France" 

Thierry Boisnon refuses however to say if the company has a margin of maneuver to reduce the breakage, whereas the Minister for the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, announced that counter-proposals would be presented to the group. "We enter into a social dialogue from July 6. We will see during the procedure how to change the number of transformations underway," sweeps the boss of Nokia France.

"Nokia is a major and strategic player in France, where we employ more than 5,000 people," said the manager, however. According to him, this social plan does not bode well for the departure of the Finnish giant from France. "France will remain for Nokia a critical site in the world", assures Thierry Boisnon.