SFR: The voluntary redundancy plan Thursday signed no comfort in Reunion – Zinfos 974

After several days of negotiations, an agreement for the elimination of 4,200 jobs through a voluntary redundancy plan was signed Thursday in Paris between the majority unions (CFDT and Unsa) and the direction of SFR. The CGT has for its part refused to take part.

As a reminder, in June, Patrick Drahi – the majority shareholder of Altice group – declared that SFR was overstaffed. “We were given a guarantee on the use of three years, so there is still one year. Today, we are in a situation where people know that the guarantee ends in a year” , he shouted. Threats confirmed last week during the announcement of the removal, term, of 4200 posts.

Robert Earl, CFDT union delegate at SFR Réunion highlights: “A voluntary separation plan is more advantageous than social, accompanying material, training, redeployment”. He wishes to, however, that the signing of the agreement on Thursday in Paris “does not mean that the union endorse the announced volume.”

“For now, local management has not advanced”

Specifically, CFDT (one of the two main trade union organizations of the group with the UNSA) entered into negotiations and got that trading is global in order to secure a maximum of projects, either “short of by the end of 2016 with the restructuring of branch distribution with job cuts leading to departures only on a voluntary basis. in the medium term, from September 2016 to June 30, 2017, for the establishment of a provisional management employment and skills. and long-term, from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2019, with the establishment of a second wave of job cuts leading to departures only on a voluntary basis (excluding distribution) ” , relays the national leaflet.

In terms of the situation in Reunion, the union says that “it is too early to know for sure whether employees will be affected or not” . It states: “For now, local management has not advanced on strategy and project organization should know more in a month.” at a meeting with management.

Recalling a foreground of the same type was set up in 2013, and had not affected our island, Robert Comte hope it will be the same this time.

The fact remains that all these departures worried. “Many questions remain unanswered. What will happen after a third of the workforce is gone? What organization will be set up?” , he questioned. In Reunion, SFR has 390 employees.