Nokia to cut 1,233 jobs at French subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent: unions

Monday, June 22, 2020

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PARIS (Reuters) - Finland's Nokia Oyj plans to cut 1,233 jobs at its French subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent International, equivalent to a third of the local workforce, two union officials said on Monday.

The maker of telecoms equipment informed French unions about the planned job cuts ahead of a works council in the morning.

The CFE-CGC union published the job loss figure on its website. It was confirmed by Frederic Aussedat of the CFE-CGC union and Pascal Guihéneuf of the CFDT union.

A spokeswoman for Nokia France declined to comment.

(Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain and Gwenalle Barzic; editing by Richard Lough)

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