“It’s a very bad surprise, we didn’t expect it at all,” says the CFTC union

“We are not responsible, we employees, for the wanderings of the company for several years regarding the difficulties it encounters,” said Monday on franceinfo Djamal Otmani, central delegate of the union at Auchan. The group is preparing to announce a major social plan on Tuesday.

Given the “Information that we currently have, we unfortunately expect an employment protection plan with the risk of job cuts within the company”, Djamal Otmani, CFTC central union delegate from Auchan, testified Monday, November 4 on franceinfo. This announcement is expected on Tuesday by the food distributor, which has been experiencing economic and commercial difficulties for several years. “It’s a very unpleasant surprise. We didn’t expect it at all”he added. “Fewer employees will mean less welcome for customers”he fears.

It is all the more complicated that “working conditions are difficult because we are already 3,000 fewer jobs than last year. We are losing customers because they no longer have” want to “wasting their time in large hypermarkets. Today customers prefer to go to slightly smaller stores”, explained Djamal Otmani. “It’s up to us to transform and adapt” car “our economic model was based on hypermarkets, this is one of the problems we are currently encountering”he said.

“We are not responsible, we employees, for the company's wanderings over several years regarding the difficulties it is encountering. This is the consequence of the bad choices it made, the employees do not have to pay the price of these wanderings”, believes Djamal Otmani.