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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
770 - 1,800 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 October 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
The Italian branch of the French retailer Carrefour announced a 'transformation plan' which should lead to the exit of 770 workers: 600 in the salespoints and 170 in the headquarter.
The plan foresees a new franchise model which entails the sale of 106 directly managed supermarkets to small entrepreneurs by 2022 – 41 in Lombardy, 18 in Campania, 17 in Liguria, 16 in Lazio, six in Tuscany, four in Emilia Romagna, three in Piedmont, and one in Abruzzo – involving around 1,000 employees.
However, according to trade unions, the redundancies might be many more (1,800 out of a workforce of 16,000) as transition from direct management to franchising would not be employment neutral but could affect also transferred employees.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
