The management and the two main unions of the telecom operator SFR reached an agreement Thursday to eliminate 5,000 jobs, or a third of the workforce through a voluntary redundancy plan, two years after the takeover the operator Numericable (Altice).
“It is overstaffed.” the businessman Patrick Drahi, Altice main shareholder, the parent SFR, has never hidden his desire to downsize, frozen to 15,000 jobs when it bought in 2014. “we were given a guarantee on the use of three years so there is still one year. Today is in a situation where people know that the guarantee stops in one year. (…) They know we’re overstaffed, “he told reporters in New York late June.
Agreement validated despite the refusal of the CGT. Initiated on the question of the group’s distribution arm, discussions between management and unions have extended to all of the operator and resulted in the signing of an agreement by the two SFR unions, the CFDT and UNSA. The green light of these unions, a majority between them, is sufficient to validate the agreement that had been submitted to the trade unions in the wake of their meeting with the Minister of Labour Myriam El Khomri Tuesday. The CGT announced it will not parapherait
. Cost: between 600 and 800 million The daily Les Echos . this restructuring could cost between 600 and 800 million euros to the operator, over two years, but actually achieve € 400 million in savings per year. In an email to all employees, the Group General Manager, Michel Paulin, welcomed the signing of the agreement “with trade unions representing telecom hub”. The UNSA confirmed his signature in a message to AFP. In a statement, the CFDT sign said “today the constituent agreement of a new deal for the Telecom division SFR Group,” which “does not endorse or volume, or the choice of job cuts that will facts. “
” It seems absurd to remove a third of the workforce, “said Isabelle Lejeune-Teh, of the CFDT. But by agreeing to discuss the union wanted to frame the accompanying terms of departures and allow employees to have a “better visibility” on the jobs concerned.
The SFR plan. According to the CFDT and Unsa, the staff reduction plan will be conducted in two phases: the restructuring of the distribution by the end of 2016 should cover a thousand jobs, and a second phase in July 2017 in late June 2019 should result in 4,000 additional departures without layoffs. The group must present at the beginning of September its “strategic directions”, which will reveal the trades affected by these departures, according to Isabelle Lejeune-Te. Departures will be the conditions for compensation and a previous plan accompanying dating from 2013.
“Facing an initially displayed target of 9,000 employees remaining term, we got the pole Telecom SFR has minimum 10,000 employees until mid-2019, “said the CFDT. This agreement should allow “the SFR Telecom pole to quickly develop a more agile organization, more competitive, more efficient and modern, as have done our competitors,” said Michel Paulin in his email. The restructuring of the operator occurs in a context of declining sector workforce for several years.
The number Orange, which still has nearly 97,000 employees in France, no longer systematically replaces the departures retirement. The third operator, Bouygues Telecom, had to be resolved in 2014, in the wake of the aborted takeover of SFR, a major restructuring that resulted in the removal of more than 1,400 jobs (over 15% of the 9,000 employees). The announcement of the voluntary redundancy plan comes four days before the publication of interim results of SFR, next Tuesday, while the operator was a difficult start to the year, marked by a 6.1% decline in sales of business to 2.57 billion euros, and a net loss of 41 million euros
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