Employed for thirty-six years in the Casino Valence 2 supermarket, Laurent Cordier is ” shocked “. This elected FO on the social and economic committee (CSE) of the establishment received, Wednesday April 24 at mid-morning, a call from his regional manager who informed him that his supermarket, and the 62 employees who work there, would become the 27e point of sale for which Casino still does not have a buyer.
Mr. Cordier therefore goes to the side of the employees under the ax of economic dismissal. The Casino group (taken over on March 27 by a consortium made up of Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky, associated with Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, founder of the Fimalac holding company, and the fund British investment company Attestor) announced on Wednesday in a press release “the net elimination of a maximum of 1,293 to 3,267 positions”, following its transformation plan, which adapts “the size of its support functions in its various headquarters as well as its logistics network”. The difference between the two figures comes from the number of stores not taken over which would lower the curtain.
Throughout the group (which manages the Casino, Franprix, Monoprix brands), employees are shared between ” worry “ And ” relief “ to finally have information after several months of uncertainty. “It’s less social damage than we could have predicted, even if it’s still too much”estimates Nathalie Devienne, SNTA-FO delegate. “It remains to be seen which positions exactly and what compensation”, adds Jean Pastor, CGT delegate and representative of the inter-union. The first meetings will begin on May 6.
In total, 1,293 positions would be eliminated in the group’s various headquarters, including 554 in Saint-Etienne, which employs 1,564 people, while employees expected more. The buyers were committed to preserving as many jobs as possible at the distributor’s historic headquarters, with local elected officials and in Bercy. This lesser evil seems possible thanks to the reintegration of services that were outsourced, “like Monoprix pay slips”notes Mr. Pastor.
Logistics and seats affected
This did not prevent the mayor (ex-Les Républicains) Gaël Perdriau, also president of the Saint-Etienne metropolis, from reacting on Wednesday by evoking a “significant number of job cuts”. He says he wants to meet “the management team will soon be in place again to consolidate the group’s presence in Saint-Etienne”.
In logistics, 740 positions, out of a total of 2,140, are threatened, and four warehouses will be closed in Besançon, Toulon, Limoges and Gaël, in Ille-et-Vilaine. At Monoprix, a social plan for 102 people out of 1,111 at the Clichy head office (Hauts-de-Seine) was announced.
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