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Utilities Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply 35.11 - Production of electricity
3,550 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 January 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
The primary French energy group EDF announced on 21 January that it will reduce its workforce by about 3,350 positions within the next three years out of a total workforce of 67,000 employees (about 5% of the total workforce). Three unions announced they will organise a strike against this downsizing. The management highlighted the workforce reduction will be managed through natural departures and non replacement of retirees, without forced dismissals. It also explained that EDFs’ workforce increased by 9% between the end of 2010 and the end of 2014. Furthermore, EDF will recruit between 1,000 to 2,000 employees per year the next three years. Since 1 January 2016 and the end of the regulated tariffs for professional customers, EDFs' share of the professional market has decreased by about 30%. Therefore, the division dealing with EDF's professional customers will be reorganised. The decision is taken in the framework of a three-years cost saving plan of €700 million. At the Central works council, on 21 January, the employees' representatives from CGT, CFE-CGC and CFDT voted against the restructuring. Four strikes were organised within EDF since November 2015.
Sources
15 January 2016: Le Figaro
15 January 2016: Les Echos
18 January 2016: Les Echos
21 January 2016: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2016), EDF, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 86194, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86194.
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