2024-09-06 18:12:54
After a meeting of the central social and economic committee (CSEC) Thursday in Saint-Etienne, announced various union groups from Casino Group Friday 6. September of the latter will eliminate more than 3,000 positions as part of the social program announced in April. The management of the distribution group refuses to confirm or deny these figures, but assures that “Not all excluded situations will lead to direct repercussions”. Until then, it offers a wide range of decline between 1,293 and 3,267 positions.
During the CSEC on Thursday, two important articles of the association told the parties the details of the occupational safety program (PSE). Distribution Casino France (DCF), which manages the group’s stores and head office, plans 2,029 job cuts, and Easydis, its 740 logistics subsidiary, with the closure of four stores and the sale of two sites, according to the group.
“A total of more than 3,000 workers are affected”if we put the positions that will disappear in other companies in the historical field of the group, as well as between Monoprix and Franprix, said Friday to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Hervé Preynat, representative of the Easydis CFDT central office. Representatives of four other trade unions represented in the group confirmed this data.
Selling more than 260 stores this year
According to an anonymous source within the administration, more than a hundred requests for the prospective voluntary departure have already been made. “and the process continues”. Further “There will be 1,000 positions to fill in every group”that you can “Reduce impact in terms of layoffs”he added.
Casino announced at the beginning of July the sale of 66 large format stores to the Les Mousquetaires group and to Auchan Retail France, in accordance with an agreement that has led the group to sell more than 200 hypermarkets and supermarkets for your candidate in the spring. .
Union trade organizations do a “A negative opinion about the progress of the whole process”. Some labor representatives refused “Weakness of the social aspect, with a higher statutory compensation of six months of salary for dismissed persons with more than twenty years of seniority and rehabilitation leave set at 70% of the average salary”.
Another elected official representative “insufficient information” during the process and uncertainties about “the future of the club” that the group of buyers, headed by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, wants to refocus on local food marketing.
At the end of 2022, Casino still employs some 200,000 people worldwide, including 50,000 in France, before increasing its sales. Its workforce has fallen below 30,000 workers in France, even before the announcement of the social plan.
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