The first meetings between the HRD and the unions took place a few weeks ago.
Air France, which has nearly 40,000 employees, wishes to use the long-term partial activity scheme (APLD) which requires an agreement with employee representatives.
The company would like to apply it to all categories of personnel: pilots, flight attendants and flight attendants, ground personnel.
She would use it for a maximum of two years for 40% of the working time.
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On paper, we are in favor of it because it allows better compensation than the classic partial unemployment scheme
," said Christophe Dewatine, CFDT secretary general at Air France.
Concretely, with the APLD, Air France employees would receive 84% of their net salary for hours not worked.
Or a more advantageous compensation than that of traditional partial unemployment, which should rise to 72% soon.
The APLD is also advantageous for the company: the State will pay it 85% of this amount against 60% in the partial unemployment system soon.
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The company needs to be social because the times ahead will be difficult: before the summer, it still hoped to return to 70% of its activity at the end of the year.
Today, it only expects 50%.
It will continue to carry out its plan to eliminate positions which provides for nearly 6,500 departures, including 3,640 ground staff.
But this plan had been conceived before the summer when the forecasts for a relaunch of the activity were much more favorable and rapid.
Suddenly, Air France has to face an overstaffing that it had not anticipated.
This overstaffing could grow if the plan for voluntary departures affecting ground personnel did not fill up.