At Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly, according to Groupe ADP, manager of the two airports, 4,000 positions are to be filled. But ADP, like the myriad of subcontractors at work, would encounter“huge” difficulties in recruiting, said Thursday, April 28, Augustin de Romanet, CEO of the airport manager. After parting with 1,150 employees as part of a collective conventional termination agreement (RCC) in 2021, Groupe ADP wishes to hire 600 people, to support the return of activity. Especially in anticipation of the influx of passengers during the summer holidays.
This primarily concerns security officers, maintenance technicians, but also engineers. It’s urgent. Activity seems to be picking up faster and stronger than expected. In the first quarter, ADP traffic has already reached 72% of its 2019 level. Roissy and Orly airports might return to normal activity a year ahead of schedule at the end of 2023-beginning of 2024.
“A little bit of interim”
“Our activity is picking up but we are perfectly on time for our hiring because we have already recruited 200 employees, i.e. a third of the 600 people we are looking for”, points out Laurent Gasse, Human Resources Director of Groupe ADP. “To recruit, we face the same difficulties as other companies. It is not a question of starting salary but rather how to find staff », he adds. Disagree, retorts Daniel Bertone, general secretary of the CGT of ADP. According to him, ADP “is struggling to recruit because its salary offers are below those of the competition. They are even obliged to give fictitious seniority to new hires”.
Among subcontractors, the strength of the recovery has not yet had a positive impact on employment. “There are no jobs at all. Only a little interim”, laments Imad Dachroune, SUD-Aérien union representative at 3S Alyzia, one of the big subcontractors of Roissy and Orly. According to him, companies will have “draw a double benefit from the crisis: following laying off employees with twenty-five to thirty years of seniority, they will rehire staff paid at the minimum wage”.
Inflation obliges, wage demands are likely to increase the tension. “Summer might be tense”, threatens Mr. Bertone, who wrote on Monday May 2 to the CEO of the ADP group to demand “the opening of new negotiations on wages and the stopping of the savings plan which must be completed at the end of 2023”. The CGT of Roissy even militates for a convergence of struggles. The local union of the union called on all employees of the Roissy platform to demonstrate on Thursday June 9. Just before the big departures on vacation.
