Air France will open voluntary redundancy plans (POS) for 1,400 positions on the ground and 200 hostesses and stewards positions by early 2017, are we learned Wednesday from union sources.
both POS should be officially announced to staff representatives at an upcoming central works council on 25 and 26 February.
on the ground, the principle of voluntary departures was officially recorded but not the scope of the plan. According to two unions, the POS will open for 1,405 positions on the ground and 200 full-time equivalents aircrews and commercial side. The proposed closing date is January 31, 2017.
Questioned by AFP, the management of Air France regretted that “the documents communicated to the social partners can be found in the press” before the meeting of CEC.
VDP, which will be negotiated in the coming weeks with the trade unions, “take into account the growth project presented on 15 January and therefore significantly reduce the extent of attrition” by overstaffed compared to management projections presented late 2015, claimed the company.
In early December, Air France felt its overstaffing at 1,823 stations on the ground, 890 flight attendants and 280 pilots by April 2017.
Driven by a more favorable economic situation, company had partially buried on January 15 its attrition level (reduction of activity) and presented a new draft providing for an increase in the fleet from 2017 to 2020, always conditioned to competitive agreements with flight personnel.
About 3,000 cuts originally planned stations in 2016 and 2017, it had maintained the removal of 1,000 jobs in 2016, a result of aircraft cuts and lines planned this year.
“We still do not have a clear view of employment the company policy”, commented to AFP Mehdi Kemoune (CGT) on the eve of a new meeting of the Inter (except CFDT and CFE-CGC) and the publication of results of the company for 2015. “While profits ahead + record + (…) employees should not be variables adjustment, other solutions are possible, “the delegate.
According to several unions, the company reported a profit (his first since 2008) of around EUR 400 million in 2015.
1405 posts, “it’s a little less than what was feared but we must look into the details,” responded an official of another union, pointing out that “in some trades, the POS opens more positions at the start, in others less than what the company had told us. “
he said the initial conditions offered to time are” not up ” . “The rumors were that the new POS would be more interesting for personal but this is not the case in the submitted project”, particularly regarding the benefit of discounted tickets, for which “the condition of 30 years of seniority maintained “.
The last voluntary separation plan on the ground, announced in January 2015, did not find the 500 candidates initially targeted. A hundred were missing.
Under the effect of Transform restructuring plan, the number of Air France (excluding subsidiaries) have melted more than 5,500 jobs between 2012 and late 2014. The company employed 52,500 employees at the end of 2014.
02/17/2016 6:40:13 p.m. – Paris (AFP) – AFP © 2016
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