Forty-one Carrefour stores, including 16 hypermarkets, in which nearly 4,000 employees work, could leave the group and switch to lease-management in 2023, we learned from union sources, after announcements made Wednesday by management to staff representatives.
Sixteen hypermarkets, including one
"which would go into franchise"
located in Tarnos, in the Landes, could go into lease-management, according to Sylvain Macé, CFDT delegate.
Regarding this last store, he assures that it is
“not at all loss-making”
.
“It will send shivers down the spine of employees when they see that the argument, which is to choose loss-making stores, falls.
Everyone is concerned, including the store which is doing well
.
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Carrefour defends this strategy consisting in entrusting to a manager their operation by the need to
“reform the model of some of its hypermarkets so that they can find a dynamics of growth”
.
According to three union sources confirming information from distribution specialist Olivier Dauvers, the other hypermarkets affected by a move to lease-management in 2023 are: Troyes-la-Chapelle (Aube), Hérouville (Calvados), Saint-Brieuc (Côtes d 'Armor), Nantes-Beaulieu (Loire-Atlantique), Reims-Cernay (Meuse), Armentières, Denain, Condé sur Escaut, Saint-Pol-sur-Mer (North), Thionville (Moselle), Vaulx-en-Velin ( Rhône), Toulon Mayol (Var), Evry (Essonne) and Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“A social clause
”
In addition, there are 25 “Carrefour Market” supermarkets.
Carrefour claims to have put in place
“a social clause which makes it possible to maintain many advantages for the transferred personnel”
.
But this does not exceed 15 months, according to union sources.
"Then they return to the branch agreement, certain benefits are called into question and according to our calculations, the employees lose roughly one month, one and a half months of wages in terms of benefits"
, estimated with the AFP Dominique Moualek, national delegate FO Carrefour hypermarkets.
"It has an impact on employment"
, he adds,
"we realize that very quickly, we have employees who are led to leave the stores, especially since the tenant managers may have every interest in seeing these employees leave to hire other employees without the old Carrefour rules.
There is a real social breakdown in there
.
According to the calculations of Sylvain Macé,
"since the implementation of the plan"
of the boss of the Alexandre Bompard group in 2018,
"we are in the process of reaching 20,000 employees in 268 stores"
who would go into lease-management.
It
's "really a groundswell, an outsourcing of stores very clearly."
