Big cleaning coming up at Casino ? This Wednesday, April 24, the large distribution group announced that between 1,293 and 3,267 positions could be eliminated depending on the number of large format stores and logistics warehouses not yet sold which will find takers by September. And to specify that a thousand jobs will be preserved at the historic headquarters of Saint-Étienne (Loire).
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Presented to staff representatives, the “ reorganization project » of the company « plans 1,293 net job cuts within the group's head office functions, including 554 in Saint-Étienne », Indeed detailed Casino in a press release. “ Failing to find buyers ”, up to 1,974 positions could still be eliminated.
Melting workforce
While it employed no less than 200,000 people worldwide and 50,000 in France at the end of 2022, the Casino group – purchased at the end of March by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky (current majority shareholder of Marianne) – has seen its workforce shrink through the transfers of recent months.
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The social and economic committees of companies affected by employment protection plans (PSE) were summoned to a meeting on May 6, during which “ an information-consultation procedure prior to the implementation of a draft management plan job protection » will be proposed. At the same time, the negotiation on the content of the job protection plan will be engaged with the trade union organizations representing the said companies “.
The Casino group specifies that it will also offer a “ phase of voluntary departures for the employees concerned » by a PES and “ presenting a professional project, in order to limit as much as possible the number of forced departures “.
