France: manufacture of food products number of employees 2019

In 2019, the number of employees in the food product manufacturing industry in France remained nearly unchanged at around 613,499 employees. Still, the number of employees reached its highest value in the observed period in 2019.

The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.
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Total number of employees in the food products manufacturing sector of France from 2010 to 2019

Characteristic	Total number of employees
2019	613,499
2018	605,403
2017be	601,796
2016be	555,307
2015b	488,785
2014b	543,423
2013	528,674
2012	534,063
2011	532,454
2010	548,074

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Release date

February 2022

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Region

France

Survey time period

2010 to 2019

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
e: Estimated value.
The source adds further explanation: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Data coverage corresponds to Section C10 of NACE Rev2.

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