Pimkie failed, PSA did: the automaker received a green light from a majority of unions for its project of conventional collective breaks, a first since the recent reform of the Labor Code that introduces the device.
This Friday the PSA works council is in progress and should not finish until late morning. The unions FO, CFDT, CFTC and GSEA, together totaling more than 58% of the vote, told AFP want to sign the document, which only the CGT (19.6%) opposed. The CFE-CGC (19.4%) has not yet announced its choice. The plan of job cuts with the new conventional collective breaks should be signed during the day.
According to management, the production sites would not be directly affected
We do not yet know where and how will be distributed job cuts and hirings. It should be noted that according to the management, job cuts will not take place in production sites, such as the Poissy site. It is the support functions and structures that would be concerned, that is to say the personnel who is not directly related to manufacturing but who is responsible for example management, logistics etc …
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The group that brings together Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall, program 1,300 conventional collective breaks (RCC) is, in detail, 1,250 external mobility (reclassification leave, business creation) and 50 professional transition passports. It also extends for 900 people departures in “senior leave”. This scheme allows employees to stop working two to three years before retirement, while maintaining their employment contract and 70% of their gross remuneration.
But, alongside these 2,200 voluntary departures, PSA plans to recruit more than 1,300 permanent employees in its automotive division (62,000 employees by the end of 2016) and to welcome at least 2,000 apprentices in 2018.
The conventional break, quésako?
The conventional break is a device that allows for voluntary departures outside a social plan and without economic justification. They require an agreement signed by unions representing at least 50% of the staff.