France: manufacture of food products number of employees 2021

The number of employees in the food product manufacturing industry in France saw no significant changes in 2021 in comparison to the previous year 2020 and remained at around 642718 employees. In comparison to 2020, the number of employees decreased not significantly by 41 employees (-0.01 percent).
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 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Total number of employees
2021b	642,718
2020	642,759
2019	613,499
2018	605,403
2017be	601,796
2016be	555,307
2015b	488,785
2014b	543,423
2013	528,674
2012	534,063

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Release date

March 2024

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France

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
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 CE Rev2.

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