The FO and CFDT unions of LCL, a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole SA, called on Friday for employees to strike on Tuesday, January 17, to demand wage increases and better working conditions. Denouncing in a press release “extreme greed”, FO and the CFDT, the bank’s 2nd and 3rd union respectively, are offended by the management’s refusal to grant a general increase for 2023 after the 2.9% average obtained in July, a level well below inflation, unions say. To this increase paid “as of July 1” and “as an advance for 2023”, individual increases of around 3.5% are added, LCL reacted to AFP.
“In addition, the participation and participation in the benefits of the year 2022 and paid in 2023 should reach an all-time record level for the bank, as a reminder the participation paid in 2022 represented on average more than two months of salary,” the bank added. .
“Resignations are on the rise”
The inter-union had also criticized the offer of a shared value bonus, of a maximum of 1,200 euros for salaries of less than 30,000 euros, also stating that “resignations are increasing” and that the bank “has a very difficult time hiring”. “It is not with such wage measures that it will work,” conclude the two unions.
The SNB, the first LCL union that is not a member of the inter-union, however, invited employees in a press release “to express (their) discontent at participating in the social movement on January 17,” judging that “the measures remain insufficient in view of the results of LCL” and the “degraded” working conditions. During the first nine months of 2022, LCL posted a net profit of €676 million, up 17.7% year-on-year.
Source: BFM TV
