Credit: Below: STATEC

In its recent report ranking major employers by size, STATEC has revealed that POST Luxembourg remained the largest employer in the Grand Duchy as of 1 January 2020.

STATEC has just published its list of Luxembourg's main employers according to the workforce at the start of the year, broken down by size and economic activity branch. The list is drawn up on the basis of a non-compulsory annual survey of companies and groups of companies located in the Grand Duchy and employing at least 90 people as of 1 January 2020. It covers activities in industry, construction, trade and most service activities.

Apart from the Luxembourg state (29,320 employees), the POST Group continued to employ the most people (4,650) in Luxembourg over the past year. This also represents an increase from the previous year when POST employed 4,540 people.

In second place, the Luxembourg railways, the CFL Group, hired 4,510 people (down from, followed closely behind by Cactus Group which counted 4,420 employees. Like POST, these groups also increased their number of employees since the 2019 rankings. 

New on the list of top ten employers was Amazon.com, with 2,760 employees, pushing the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) into 11th place (2,490 employees).

The full list can be viewed at https://statistiques.public.lu/fr/actualites/entreprises/entreprises/2020/07/20200721/index.html.