Air France to shed 5,000 jobs (French press)
Jan 13, 2015, 12:52 pm
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Article in Le Figaro:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/societes/2015...5000postes.php
Article in Le Figaro:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/societes/2015...5000postes.php
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Jan 13, 2015, 11:05 pm
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Note that according to Liberation, AF is denying the news, effectively suggesting that they have not yet decided whether there is need for another voluntary departures plan, let alone any numbers should this happen (mods - may be it might be worth updating thread title until we know which of the two papers proves right?)
http://www.liberation.fr/economie/20...postes_1180147
http://www.liberation.fr/economie/20...postes_1180147
Jan 13, 2015, 11:11 pm
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Shouldn't the question be whether AF needs those workers and not whether they need to get rid of the workers?
Jan 13, 2015, 11:51 pm
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Jan 14, 2015, 12:10 am
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So instead, cut the number of employees, until you are bare bones, with unhappy customers due to the resulting decreased customer service and delays due to staff shortages, continue to lose money and go under.
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Jan 22, 2015, 5:54 am
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Update today - apparently it would be a new plan for 800 voluntary retirement/redundancy http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/artic...1545_3234.html
Jan 22, 2015, 6:19 am
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Jan 22, 2015, 6:29 am
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Article also mentions that they want to close unprofitable routes (which ones would those be?), that their RASM has gone down (surprise surprise).
Jan 23, 2015, 4:50 am
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Jan 23, 2015, 9:00 am
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I was thinking of "licenciement pour motif économique ".
It seems that the "plan de depart volontaire" has quite a few advantages in terms of procedure and cost, but the departing employees are not necessarily those that the company wished would depart and it has been getting increasingly harder at AF to find enough volunteers.
Jan 23, 2015, 9:05 am
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But that is the whole point: this is not the case of people people made redundant against their will but, on the contrary, individuals who voluntarily leave the company. We would also call this voluntary redundancies in English to distinguish them from involuntary redundancies.
Jan 23, 2015, 11:10 am
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Voluntary redundancies can work well when the company then has the possibility to redistribute its workforce effectively and as it wants, but it is an unlikely occurrence here and, for instance, if someone based at CDG resigns and pockets the incentive while AF would have liked to get rid of someone based at ORY, to then move that person from ORY to CDG they will be facing further resistance and probably expenses.
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But that is the whole point: this is not the case of people people made redundant against their will but, on the contrary, individuals who voluntarily leave the company. We would also call this voluntary redundancies in English to distinguish them from involuntary redundancies.