The Triennial Agreement provides for a production of 700,000 cars and 2,500 hires by 2025, but also 1,700 blank neck removals within two years.
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It is under the auspices of the boss – Luca de MEO, the Director General of the Renault Group – that three of the four union organizations representative of the diamond signed, Tuesday, December 14, a new triennial social agreement 2022-2024 for France , promising at the Tricolore factories of the French manufacturer an industrial future with hiring. In exchange, the text provides for a reorganization of work and new job cuts in tertiary activities and engineering. Called “Re-new France 2025”, the text was signed by the CFE-CGC, the CFDT and FO, three unions representing 76% of Renault’s 30,000 employees in France (out of 170,000 worldwide).
The moment does not lack solemnity. This is the first major social agreement signed by the new direction since the fall of Carlos Ghosn, in 2018, which had printed its mark on the two previous texts initialed in 2013 and 2017. This denouement, after thirteen weeks of negotiations. , is a success for M. de MEO and its Human Resources Directorate. The boss convinced three quarters of his social partners, including the CFE-CGC, the first union of the company, including the natural electorate – engineers, tertiary teams, support functions – yet has not been spared By management since 2020. Only the CGT refused to endorse the agreement.
Precisely, what does this text contain? First, the promise to produce 700,000 vehicles per year by 2025, which constitutes, according to Renault, a 38% increase compared to the level of 2020 and 12% if we compare with the average of the last twelve years. Nine vehicles will be assigned to French plants, mainly electric cars at the Northern Electricity Pole (Douai, Maubeuge) and commercial vehicles also often electrified. The Cleon plant (Seine-Maritime) will be the production center of the new electric motor of 100 kilowatt hours.
Productivity measurements
To accompany this amount in charge, 2,500 people will be recruited, including 2,000 in production and 500 in engineering, giving priority to rare profiles in the group: data specialists, software, software. Battery chemistry. A massive training plan of 10,000 people will be implemented. “The agreement places France at the heart of Renault’s activities,” summed Maximilian Fleury, Director of Human Resources for France.
The agreement provides, in return, productivity measures: four-hour elongation of the annual working time to reach thirty-five hours per week, flexibilisation in the event of a decline or increase of volumes to be produced, six Saturdays mandatory Worked by year, unpaid twenty minutes breaks for new hires and temporary workers. Above all, 1,700 jobs will be removed within two years in engineering (1,300) and support functions (400), which add to the hemorrhage of the restructuring plan of the spring 2020. The latter provided for the disappearance of 4,600 posts in France, including 2,500 for the Renault employees of the tertiary.
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