McDonald’s, the leading fast food chain in France, will cut 35 jobs in its central services, among which the Unsa union fears layoffs aimed at employees over 50 and announced during their summer vacations.
France is the country where the activity of the world giant is most profitable after the United States. Asked by AFP, 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 the abolition of 35 jobs (including 9 assistant positions) but also the creation of 24 jobs at the headquarters of the fast food group, within the McDonald’s France Service entity in Guyancourt (Yvelines), which employs about 500 employees and provides services (administration, marketing campaigns, real estate development, etc.) for franchised or own restaurants.
This plan, “scheduled for July and August while employees are on leave, is aimed at elderly and older managers and assistants, who will not be reclassified,” warns Unsa, the representative union at the McDonald’s France headquarters, as the CFE-CGC and the CFDT, signatories of the PSE.
“Limit forced departures as much as possible”
The CFDT highlights the improvement in severance pay obtained through negotiation while the CFE-CGC welcomes the voluntary departure conditions, a device thanks to which McDonald’s France says it wants to “limit forced departures as much as possible”. But to be able to choose, the employees will have to present “beginning of July”, in 15 days, emphasizes Unsa, “a CDI”, a “serious project of creation of a company” or “recycling”.
McDonald’s, which exhibits “remarkable results and an extremely solid financial profile”, “must present an exemplary labor protection plan”, estimates the expert Sextant, in a report presented to the CSE. According to this report, the multinational obtained 6,200 million dollars in benefits last year and its operating margin “over 40% is well” above that of its competitors.
Source: BFM TV
