Between the end of March 2023 and the end of June 2023, payroll employment was virtually stable: +0.1% (or +21,000 net job creations) after +0.4% in the previous quarter (that is +101,800 jobs). It had strongly grown in 2021 and 2022 and exceeded thus its pre-sanitary crisis level (end of 2019) by 5.0% (that is +1.3 million jobs). It exceeded its Q2 2022 level by +1.0% (that is +279,900 jobs). Private payroll employment sharply slackened in Q2 2023: +0.1% (that is +12,200 jobs) after +0.4% in the previous quarter (that is +94,100 jobs). It topped its Q2 2022 level by 1.3% (that is +261,400 jobs) and its pre-sanitary ... (full story)