About 200 people gathered in October in front of the Nokia factory in Lannion.

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They are saved.

In Lannion, in the Côtes d'Armor, around 250 people working for Nokia will be able to keep their jobs.

The Finnish telecoms equipment maker on Friday announced plans to reduce the impact of its plan of 1,233 job cuts in France.

Concretely, Nokia plans to open a new "cybersecurity center" in Lannion, which could "lead to the creation of 112 new positions by the end of 2021, of which 97 would be based in Lannion", indicates Friday the company in a communicated.

"The second project would consist in implementing new activities around 5G intended to test and integrate future use cases and services of 5G, as well as to test new business models", on the sites of Lannion and Nozay, in the Paris region.

The government immediately welcomed what it considers to be a "significant step forward" which "seems to confirm Nokia's desire to prioritize France for its research and development activities", according to the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire.

But for the unions of Nokia "the account is not there" even if the new proposals of the equipment manufacturer constitute an "advance".

According to Frédéric Aussedat of the CFE-CGC, "this is good news for Lannion which makes it possible to temporarily reduce departures, but at Nozay it's cosmetics".

A fourth social plan in four years

For Philippe Mulot, CGT central delegate in Lannion "we are far from the account since there would remain 240 posts deleted on Lannion and 746 on Nozay or 986 posts deleted" in France.

In total, Nokia plans to preserve 250 positions initially planned for elimination in the social plan, "thus mitigating the overall impact of this plan, in particular on the Lannion site", a town of 20,000 inhabitants which is one of the top places in the history of French telecommunications.

On June 22, Nokia announced a restructuring plan in France with 1,233 job cuts, including 402 in Lannion.

This was the fourth social plan since the acquisition in 2016 of Alcatel-Lucent by the Finnish group.

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