Employment: A major sector will remove 50,000 positions in 2025

A sector, whose workforce represents half of those in the industry and double those in the banking sector, confirms its sad forecast of 50,000 job cuts in 2025.

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“In March, I warned that the sector was likely to lose 50,000 jobs in 2025, a fall of 4% compared to 2024. I unfortunately confirmed this forecast, all the more regrettable since we had well reassembled the slope in terms of workforce since the covid”declares Olivier Salleron, president of the French building federation (FFB), this Wednesday, June 25, during a quarterly conjuncture point. In the first quarter, the building sector has already lost 33,000 jobs, Of course 25,000 employees, a 2.4% drop in staff in the space of one year.

A withdrawal to put on the account of an overly shy recovery of the Housing constructionbut also the recently started drop in activity started in the energy renovation. After two and a half years of an unprecedented real estate crisis, caused by the quadrupling of credit rates, it hardly seems surprising that the production of new housing is only recovering very slowly, under the decrease in rates and the widening of zero -rate loan to the entire territory.

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The building, one of the first employers in the country

What is more worrying is the downward reversal of the renovation, which had counterbalanced the collapse of new construction in the activity of the building in recent years, to the point of representing them near 57% last yearat 118 billion euros. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the turnover linked to the energy renovation of housing began to retreat, by 0.8%, and it further decreased by 0.6% in the first quarter of 2025. The consequence, in particular, of incessant changes in the rules of eligibility in Maprimereno ‘, regrets Olivier Salleron. Rules that will still change after mid-September for renovations called magnitudefor which he is not No longer as possible to ask Maprimerénov ‘ From June 23, until September 15, in order to solve the problem of the processing length of files and the multiplication of fraud.

And again, “If we had not obtained that the government withdraws the monogenic renovations from the temporary closure of the Maprimerénov ‘counter, we should have added 20,000 to 30,000 additional positions to the 50,000 that we anticipate for 2025, underlines Olivier Salleron. With margins that are eroding, building companies only adapt their staff to the evolution of their order books … “ A building sector which is none other than one of the country’s first employers, with 1.75 million employeesincluding 1.26 million employees, 95,000 temporary workers and nearly 400,000 craftsmen. Half half of the industry staff and twice those in the bank-assurance sector.