2023-06-16 20:56:44
“Despite the record profits and its position as French and world leader in the fast food sector, McDonald’s will proceed with a plan to safeguard employment”, denounces in a leaflet the trade and services federation of the CGT, representative at the group level.
35 job cuts
France is the country where the activity of the global giant is the most profitable following the United States. McDonald’s France, which has 1,536 restaurants, confirmed that it had “signed a PSE agreement with staff representatives” as part of a global reorganization announced in January.
This PSE provides for 35 job cuts (including 9 assistant positions) but also 24 job creations at the head office of the fast food group, within the McDonald’s France Service entity in Guyancourt (Yvelines), which employs some 500 employees and provides services (administration, marketing campaigns, property development, etc.) for franchised or owned restaurants.
This plan “planned for July and August while employees will be on leave, targets old and elderly executives and assistants, who will not be reclassified”, alarms Unsa, representative union at the headquarters of McDonald’s France, as the CFE-CGC and the CFDT, signatories of the PSE.
“It’s really brutal”
The CFDT highlights improved severance pay obtained through negotiation while the CFE-CGC welcomes the conditions for voluntary departure, a device thanks to which McDonald’s France says it wants to “limit forced departures as much as possible”. But to be eligible, employees will have to present “at the beginning of July”, within 15 days, “a permanent contract” in another company, a “serious business creation project” or “retraining”, according to the conditions laid down by the PES.
“Everything is done to make it impossible for people with a lot of seniority to leave voluntarily, which would cost the company a lot more,” laments Chloé (first name changed), assistant. “And they will send the dismissal letters during the holidays: it’s really brutal”.
McDonald’s, which displays “remarkable results and an extremely solid financial profile”, “must present an exemplary job protection plan”, estimates the expert Sextant, in a report submitted to the CSE.
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