Whereas the French are making ready to face the second shock wave of the well being disaster, the giants of collective catering are drawing, one after the opposite, the results of the primary wave which plunged their firm canteens into long-term stagnation. , between the drop in exercise throughout confinement, the closures (a few of which have grow to be everlasting) and the event of teleworking which decreases the variety of workers on the websites. Lower than a month after the announcement by Elior France of a social plan focusing on 1,888 job cuts in its firm eating places (17 % of the workforce), Sodexo offered, Tuesday, October 28 within the central social and financial committee (CSE-C), such a large restructuring.
The French group plans “ the web discount of two,083 jobs »In collective catering in France (7 % of its workforce), for two-thirds within the Enterprise Companies phase, at Sodexo Entreprises and Sogeres Entreprises. And this, additionally inside the framework of a social plan. 184 jobs would even be lower on the caterer Lenôtre (out of 400) and 100 within the Sodexo SA holding (out of 500).
FO Sodexo requires site-by-site evaluation
In response, dozens of FO activists, the group’s main commerce union group, demonstrated on Tuesday in entrance of the headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), to demand that all attainable options
be applied to be able to keep away from social harm.
We can be extraordinarily vigilant to make sure that the job cuts correspond to the structural penalties of the disaster, that’s to say to destroyed enterprise providers and website closures. No deletion must be a part of a profitability goal ! We would require a site-by-site evaluation of the scenario
, warns Eric Villecroze, FO central union delegate and Sodexo France group coordinator.
The world quantity two in collective catering presents restructuring as a response to long-term structural challenges
. Within the 2019/2020 monetary 12 months (ended on the finish of August), it achieved a turnover of 19.three billion euros worldwide, down 12 %, and noticed its backside line collapse, from a revenue of 665 million euros to a lack of 315 million euros.
For FO, precedence have to be given to inside mobility
FO will make sure that Sodexo provides precedence to voluntary inside mobility of workers, for instance from the Enterprise Companies sector to those that are doing higher, resembling medico-social, cleansing or penitentiary. And the corporate should combine a return to higher fortune clause, assuring workers who’ve accepted inside mobility that they are going to return to their earlier place if the financial scenario improves.
, provides Nabil Azzouz, federal secretary of the lodges, cafes, eating places (HCR) and franchises sector on the FGTA-FO.
The activist can also be asking for coaching measures to make sure the employability of Sodexo workers, in exterior mobility, with accomplice corporations. Lastly, it requires early retirement measures and a voluntary departure plan. A final resolution rejected (for the second) by Sodexo France. Obtained by the overall administration, the FO representatives offered their calls for.
Staff in anguish
The social process can be launched throughout a unprecedented CSE-C on November 5 and 6. Sodexo already claims to need implement all employment retention measures for its workers
. Because the legislation requires, the group will provide a reclassification to the staff involved however, he mentioned in a press launch, widening the alternatives (…) in all of the group’s different actions in France
. Some 600 positions would thus be out there.
Whereas Sodexo entreprises and Sogeres Entreprises can be primarily affected, all of the manufacturers underneath which Sodexo operates in catering are affected by the restructuring
, specifies Eric Villecroze, DSC FO, who describes workers fearful for 3 months and, for some, in anguish because the finish of September
. The attendance figures then deteriorated. Above all, on September 30, the Employment Safety Plan (PSE) introduced at Elior France, competitor and French chief in collective catering, with 1,888 job cuts in firm canteens, was analyzed as first in an inventory that can develop.
An unprecedented social break within the sector
At Elior Entreprises, the shock stays. Intimately, 1,553 job cuts would concern Elior Entreprises, and 335, the Arpège high-end firm catering subsidiary. We’ve got by no means skilled a restructuring of this magnitude, with a lot job destruction and nearly solely in manufacturing capabilities. Till now, restructuring has been restricted to reorganizations throughout enterprise buyouts or mergers. This social disruption is unprecedented at Elior Entreprises, as within the sector
, alert Gilles Garnes, central union delegate of FO. The activist speaks from expertise, with 33 years of seniority. At this time, he describes workers “ in panic
.
The FO groups spend their time reassuring, whereas the social process has barely begun. The issues are official: in our professions, primarily occupied by ladies, wages are low and part-time staff are legion. On a human degree, it is onerous too. Staff made monumental efforts in the course of the pandemic to make themselves out there to the employer, to work on shifts, though he refused to pay the extra partial exercise allowance (16 % of internet wage) in order that they obtain 100 % of their remuneration. They don’t perceive his desire for dismissal. He makes them pay the Covid invoice a second time
, feedback the DSC FO, which denounces a want to restructure by anticipation
and strategic opportunism.
Elior Entreprises calibrates its social plan on 20 % lower in exercise
The well being and financial disaster (…) amplifies (…) deep structural modifications in collective catering actions in corporations
, justifies Elior Entreprises, which might have calibrated the restructuring on a forecasted lasting decline in exercise of 20 %.
At what deadline ? asks Gilles Garnes. These 20 % lack of exercise, resulting from modifications within the relationship of workers to work or consumption patterns, will solely be remaining within the medium or long run. Within the speedy future, Elior has the means to take care of jobs till the tip of 2020, already with partial unemployment. In accordance with consultants, supporting the CSE-C in its proper to financial alert, the group is financially sound and its money circulate wholesome. PES may have been averted
, he feedback. Along with the PSE, the catering group has already introduced its intention to increase partial exercise by means of the brand new long-term partial exercise machine (APLD).
Compass France, the one one to decide on voluntary departures
The desk of job losses within the sector could be incomplete with out Compass Group France. The French subsidiary of the British firm Compass started negotiating voluntary departures this summer time, within the type of a collective termination of settlement (RCC) aimed on the elimination of 1,500 jobs (12 % of its workforce) in all sectors coated: companies, socio-medical, schooling. Firm and college canteens had been essentially the most affected by the disaster. The primary voluntary departures are scheduled from April 2021, till December
, feedback Raphaël Jeanroy, secretary normal of FO Compass, who additionally describes right here very fearful workers who have to be consistently reassured concerning the absence of compelled departures at Compass Group France
. Because the announcement of PSEs amongst rivals Elior France and Sodexo, the union has been bombarded with appeals. The RCC settlement, which FO will signal, is being signed till November 5.
Compass Group France additionally needs to activate the long-term partial exercise system (APLD). If there is no such thing as a department settlement on the topic, the FGTA-FO has already set its crimson line: no redundancy all through the APLD, to protect employment.
