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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
3,000 - 3,267 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 September 2024
Employment effect (start)
6 November 2024
Foreseen end date
6 September 2025
Description
According to several trade union sources, at a meeting of the Central Social and Economic Committee (CSEC), Casino Group management has announced that it would be cutting more than 3,000 jobs as part of the redundancy plan announced in April.
Since this initial announcement, management has communicated a wide range of job cuts between 1,293 and 3,267 positions. Management has neither denied nor confirmed the figures.
During the CSEC meeting, the group's two main entities have provided the unions with details of the redundancy plan: Distribution Casino France (DCF), which manages the shops and head office, will cut 2,029 jobs, while its logistics subsidiary, Easydis, plans to cut 740, with the closure of four warehouses and the sale of two sites.
The number of redundancies will depend on the number of voluntary redundancies and the number of employees who accept redeployment within the Group. The final data should be known in the next two months after achieving social plan negotiation.
At the beginning of July, Casino had already announced the sale of 66 department stores to the Les Mousquetaires group and Auchan Retail France, in accordance with an agreement that had already led the group to sell more than 200 hypermarkets and supermarkets to its competitors in the spring.
The trade unions have unanimously issued an unfavourable opinion on the entire procedure, and criticising he weakness of the social aspects of the job protection plan.
Eurofound (2024), Casino, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 201553, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201553.
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