The PSA plant in Sochaux (Doubs) will recruit 250 temporary workers to reconstitute its weekend work team in November and thus bring its production back to its level before the coronavirus epidemic, management announced on Tuesday, September 29.
“A VSD team (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) will be recreated at the beginning of November”, announced the management of the site in a press release Tuesday, at the end of the monthly meeting of the CSE (social and economic committee).
This decision, which aims to “accompany” the launch of the new Peugeot 3008 SUV manufactured in Sochaux, will allow the site to “again produce 2,200 vehicles per day”, its rate before confinement, said the same text.
250 temporary workers recruited to produce Peugeot 3008 SUVs
It is leading to the recruitment of 250 temporary workers, who will form part of the new team, added the management. This team will also be made up of 450 permanent employees who currently work during the day, she added. PSA Sochaux will thus find a workforce of close to 2,000 temporary workers, supplementing the 7,300 employees on permanent contracts (CDI).
In addition to the 3008, the cradle plant of the group produces the Peugeot 308 and 5008 and the Grandland X of Opel, the German subsidiary of PSA. It has gradually increased its production level from mid-August, through the reconstitution work teams during the day during the week and the night shift, so that at the beginning of September, it was already running at almost 90% of its pace at the beginning of 2020.
The CFE-CGC union of the site, the first union organization on the spot, “welcomed the decision to relaunch the VSD”, calling it “good news for employment” in the Sochaux region where many suppliers are concentrated. The return of the VSD is “positive, but” it must lead to an agreement on the remuneration for this weekend work as well as a “stop of the accumulation of overtime”, explains Jérôme Boussard, general secretary of the CGT section, second union in Sochaux.
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