Trains at Saint-Lazare station, in Paris on December 18, 2020. -

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Renamed CEO of SNCF last Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, Jean-Pierre Farandou took advantage of an interview on Sunday on BFMTV to give the latest figures for the company's human resources.

The number of SNCF employees will have decreased by 1% in 2020 and will drop from “1% to 2%” in 2021, he announced.

However, he recalled that the company has made “3,700 permanent contract recruitments” this year, despite the health crisis that has affected its results.

According to the SNCF's “Social Report 2019”, 7,000 positions were eliminated in three years, from 2017 to 2019, in the public railway company, the workforce of which rose from around 159,700 agents at the end of 2017 to some 152,700 two years more late.

In 2020, "in the midst of the crisis", the number of positions will decrease by "less than 1%", and "next year between 1 and 2%".

"It's not all the same brutal bleeding, it's very moderate, very adjusted, we play on retirements, things are done quietly, it's internal mobility with us: there is no no layoffs at the SNCF, ”he continued.

CDI and work-study contracts

Thus, the freight activity having "slightly decreased", "we are going to offer 100 freight drivers to become drivers of passenger trains: we need 600 per year", illustrated Jean-Pierre Farandou.

“We even do it by job pools”, via the “Solidarity jobs” program set up to “manage these internal mobility issues with anticipation”, he said.

"In 2020, the SNCF is 3,700 recruitments in CDI, it is 7,000 work-study contracts that we are going to sign with young people, because we have understood that young people have problems, and we want to be there you French people in general and young people in particular, ”said the CEO.

Added to this are “2,500 integration contracts for young people in greater difficulty”.

Declining figures in 2019

In 2019, the last year before the end of hiring for railway worker status, in accordance with the provisions of the railway reform, SNCF had recruited some 4,100 people on permanent contracts, a decrease of 6.5% compared to 2018. young people under 25 (around 6,200) were in sharp decline (-18%), according to the company's “Social Report 2019”.

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