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The distributor Auchan presented a draft social plan to its staff representatives on Tuesday. 2,389 jobs are threatened.
The ax has fallen. The distributor Auchan presented to its staff representatives on Tuesday, November 5, a draft social plan threatening 2,389 jobs in France, notably through the closure of around ten stores, we learned from management on Tuesday.
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In detail, Auchan, which employs around 54,000 people in France, plans to cut 784 positions within its headquarters and 915 positions in stores. It provides for the cessation of direct home delivery activity which would result in 224 job cuts.
And it plans to close around ten unprofitable points of sale (466 positions eliminated), including three hypermarkets in Clermont-Ferrand Nord (Puy-de-Dôme), Woippy (Moselle) and Bar-le-Duc (Meuse), and in a supermarket, in Aurillac (Cantal).
Limit redundancies
Management hopes to limit the number of redundancies through support for the employees concerned, retraining training, reclassification leave and voluntary departure plan. It also provides for the creation of 114 positions in “drive” activities and 205 within support functions.
“It’s not a degrowth project that we want to manage, lowering costs is a means, not an end,” assured the distributor’s boss Guillaume Darrasse to several media outlets.
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