Employees of the Gorilas express home shopping delivery platform went on strike on Monday, unhappy with management’s proposals as part of the labor protection plan, according to the CGT. About thirty employees met on Monday in front of the Gorillas headquarters in Paris, said an AFP journalist.
The gorillas, like Frichti, belong to Turkish giant Getir, whose French subsidiary has been in receivership since March. The group has “undertaken a PSE”, a labor safeguard plan, for Gorillas but “with a purpose that it refuses to communicate” and with “nothing” to offer concretely, criticized Rémy Frey, of the CGT.
“After two years of existence in France and incredible injections of cash to get by, [le groupe Getir] cannot turn off the tap and make the AGS responsible for the payment of social charges (salary guarantee scheme, editor’s note)”, says Rémy Frey.
900 jobs at stake
Getir France, a subsidiary of the Turkish Getir group, announced in May that it was considering divesting itself of 900 employees from the three entities, Getir, but also from Gorilas and Frichti, which it acquired. In Gorilas, 264 permanent jobs out of a total of 500 are threatened, Arnaud Coulibaly, representative of the CGT Gorilas union, told AFP.
The strikers are demanding in particular “the establishment of a serious plan for voluntary departures” as well as “the allocation of additional funds to finance severance payments beyond legal requirements,” a press release read. Contacted by AFP, the Getir group did not immediately react.
200 million euros of debt
On Monday, an inter-union union (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT) from Getir France also denounced “the weak financial proposal” made by the company, within the framework of its own PSE, each of the three entities has its own plan to safeguard the job.
Despite an accumulated turnover of the three brands of around 120 million euros in 2022, and a clear growth in recent years, the group had a debt of 200 million euros at the end of March 2023, according to an internal note from the company that AFP consulted
The group accuses “an unfavorable contextual environment”, with inflation and regulatory tightening, a reason also cited by the French subsidiary of the German group Flink placed in suspension of payments in June.
Source: BFM TV
