France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees

Illustration Dares 2023
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for workers, hiring slowed over the year — though the impact varied sharply from one sector to another, according to data compiled by mind RH.
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In France, 19.1 million employees were covered by one of the 269 collective agreements applicable to more than 5,000 employees, as at 31 December 2023. For the fourth time this year, mind RH has retrieved data published by the research department of the French labour ministry (Dares) in order to compare these agreements on a number of indicators such as workforce size, pay, gender inequality and age pyramid. For greater relevance, we have grouped these sectors into 14 major sectors and excluded

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