The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced Friday its intention to cut 1,700 jobs in Europe, including a thousand in France. The group's president France promises that this is not a social plan, that departures will be "exclusively on a voluntary basis" and will be spread over three years.

The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced Friday the elimination of 1,700 jobs in Europe, including a thousand in France, a reorganization which corresponds to a "new strategy" according to Olivier Bogillot, the France president of the group, and not to a social plan linked to consequences of Covid-19.

This departure plan, which was presented to the European social partners on Friday morning, concerns a thousand of the 25,000 employees in France (out of 100,000 worldwide), Olivier Bogillot told AFP. He added that it was based "exclusively on a voluntary basis" and would span three years.

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