2023-04-20 06:38:00
Orange faces a second social front. Already mobilized once morest the plan to cut 670 jobs at Orange Business, the business division, the telecom operator’s unions are standing up once morest the plan to reorganize the network of stores, which plans to transfer, by the end 2026, up to 150 of the group’s 279 stores to its subsidiary Générale de Télephone (GDT), where wages and social agreements are less advantageous. About 1,800 Orange employees might be affected by these transfers, the unions calculate.
After a little over a month of negotiations “tense and stormy”, according to several participants, a final proofreading session of the text was held on Wednesday April 19, in the presence of the last two organizations still around the table: CFDT and FO. The other three, CFE-CGC, CGT and SUD, had all slammed the door in recent weeks, making the signing of an agreement unlikely, knowing that it takes three unions to reach the required majority.
Launched this Thursday, April 20, the signature phase is open until May 5, the time for the trade unions to survey their members in the field before deciding. “We have completed our negotiation mandate. But that doesn’t mean we’ll sign the deal.”, ton Kaoutar Schwind, of FO. Sébastien Crozier, president of the CFE-CGC of Orange, is determined to “not to sign an agreement that is below the law”.
Premium lower than practice
In the event of a transfer of a goodwill from one company to another, the employees can keep their elements of remuneration. But, according to the modus operandi chosen by Orange, only the leases would be transferred to the GDT, “thus depriving the staff of their rights”worries the CFE-CGC. “In the absence of a favorable response within fifteen days, the CFE-CGC reserves all the actions it may have to take, including in the judicial field”warns the union in a letter sent on April 18 to Jean-François Fallacher, the new general manager of Orange France.
“When the reorganization project was announced in the fall of 2022, the group’s management undertook to propose an exemplary plan for reclassifications. However, the conditions are inferior to what has been practiced until now during the transfer of employees “, deplores Abilio da Silva, union representative at SUD-PTT. Sellers who agree to join the GDT or go to another Orange store will receive a bonus of 5,800 euros, lower than usual.
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