Public works companies of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté have fears for the start of next year. While some companies “are sorely lacking in work for the end of the year”, the vast majority have no visibility for the first months of 2021.
Fears about jobs and investments
This can endanger jobs and investments, their regional federation believes. Also, for them, it is urgent that the government’s stimulus plan –“an ambitious plan” valued Vincent Martin, the Dijon president of the Regional Federation of Public Works of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté- enters its operational phase.
4 billion euros in favor of the construction industry
This stimulus plan is 100 billion euros in total that will be injected into the French economy, including 4 at national level, for Public Works. It’s a call of the foot that Vincent Martin address to local communities. “It is now necessary for the services of the communities to accelerate, so that the files come out very, very quickly and that they can be implemented by calls for tenders and projects for the profession” he believes.
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The construction industry has retained all of its employees
Especially since the sector played the game in terms of jobs during the coronavirus crisis still explains Vincent Martin. “The entrepreneurs maintained all their jobs but also all their apprentices. There are 365 of them throughout the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It is the same level as at the start of the 2019 school year.”
Communities must act
For Vincent Martin it is a “bet on the future that is why we are asking that work projects come out quickly so that all the efforts made by entrepreneurs can last and that companies can continue to invest while continuing to maintain their jobs and their apprentices “.
BTP an important sector of the regional economy
Among the big files to come or in progress in Côte-d’Or : railway works, renewal of wearing courses on departmental roads, continuation and end of the bypass of Mirebeau-sur-Beze or the construction of the future Cité de la Gastronomie in Dijon.
A few notes of hope
Moreover after the last municipal and community elections “in the communities of municipalities budgets are being voted on and projects are starting to arrive, which is reassuring because it will give us some air for the start of 2021” tempers the regional president.
Vincent Martin is this Tuesday September 22, 2020, the guest of “La Nouvelle Eco” of France Bleu Bourgogne you will hear him at 7.15 am and a quarter to nine (98.3 or 103.7).
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