The CGT d’Engie alerted “all French parliamentarians” of an energy company project to sell their Subie Home subsidiary services (EHS), which employs about 5,000 people, including more than 4,500 in France and more than 430 in Belgium and Italy.
“The CGT Engie coordination challenges it because the group, whose status has 23.64% of the capital, has just announced the sale of CoGie Home services,” said the group’s first union in this letter dated June 16 and whose AFP learned on Friday, July 25.
Engie Home Services, a subsidiary in charge of the installation, maintenance and solution of problems of heating, air conditioning and production of hot water, dessert “almost 11 million users”, underlines the CGT. “This decision, justified by a strategic rehealth, arouses strong concerns about its social, industrial and energy consequences for our country,” said the CGT.
Contacted by AFP, CoGie remembers that it has started for several years a “transformation with a growth project in its main business such as an energy company”, which had also led it to resell in 2022 its activity of the peer multiservice in Bouygues.
The CGT warns about the objective of “reducing payroll”
Even with this in mind, the group announced last March to social partners “the launch of a buyers search for their service entities for private clients in France, Belgium and Italy” and, therefore, for EHS.
For this subsidiary, the group says it wants to “find the buyer more likely to offer development perspectives to the company and its employees” and “will make social guarantees requests to potential buyers.”
Therefore, it estimates that its sale points above all to “reduce payroll” and will not reduce the net economic debt of the group, which amounted to almost 48 billion euros at the end of 2024.
The CGT, which is also concerned about the “sustainability of the public service provided to users,” asks parliamentarians to intervene with the management of the group and the state of the shareholders, “so that this decision is reconsidered.”
Source: BFM TV
