An agreement was signed on Tuesday between four of the five representative union organizations (excluding the CGT) and Amazon France Logistique following mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), with a salary increase of 7.8% on average, including the value of the shared bonus , according to the online retail giant.
The agreement is “broadly majority”, signed by “four out of five unions, (ie) 80% of the votes in the elections,” the director of human resources for Amazon France Logistique, Jon Scott, greeted AFP.
This increase includes the value sharing bonus (PPV, ex-bonus Macron) of 1,000 euros, which is given to eligible employees with at least 12 months of seniority and which will be renewed in 2024, according to Amazon.
“Artificial Augmentation Swelling”
The increase of “only the part of the base salary (without bonuses and without other measures) amounts to 4.3% on average for the year 2023,” Jon Scott told AFP.
A calculation method denounced by the CGT that denounces an artificial inflation of the salary increase by the PPV and that refused to sign the agreement.
At the end of March, Alain Jeault, representative of the CGT Amazon central union, had judged this increase as “too low compared to inflation”.
The CGT also accuses the company of making the payment of the PPV bonus conditional on absenteeism.
Thus, the salary increase for employees between 12 and 24 months of seniority is estimated at 2.4%, “which, with the very high turnover of the company, represents a large part of the workforce”.
18,500 employees in France
“The PPV (…) can be prorated according to very specific rules. […] We do not seek to apply specific rules, these are the applicable rules in the context of a PPV”, defended Jon Scott.
The latter highlighted that, in addition, from 2025, workers and supervisors will benefit from a bonus of between 2,000 and 4,000 euros per year after two years of seniority.
In March and early April, protest movements affected several Amazon sites in France in a “convergence of struggles” between the NAO and pension reform, unions told AFP.
Strikes, strikes, blockades, seepage dams had remarkably enameled the daily life of the sites of Boves (Somme), Montélimar (Drôme), Sevrey (Saône-et-Loire), Augny (Moselle).
“Today I have no movement anywhere,” said Jon Scott.
Amazon employs 18,500 people in France.
Source: BFM TV
