The tire maker announced on Wednesday January 6 that it would cut up to 2,300 jobs.
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Funny wishes for the start of the year 2021. Michelin announced on Wednesday January 6 the launch of a restructuring plan for its fifteen French sites leading it to cut “up to 2,300 jobs” in France. ‘within three years, out of Michelin’s 21,000 in France.
This “simplification and competitiveness project” provides for an improvement in Michelin’s competitiveness “of up to 5% per year” specifies the company’s press release. The job cuts will also affect tertiary activities (1,100 jobs lost), activities mainly in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) but also in Paris for the famous Red Guide. Industrial activities will also be affected to the tune of 1,200 jobs.
It was this Wednesday, January 6 that employee representatives were informed of this plan. Negotiations will be opened to put in place a method agreement aiming to launch three collective contractual breaks, for 2021, 2022 and 2023. “Departures will be done on a voluntary basis,” said a spokesperson for Michelin. We estimate that 60% of these departures will take the form of early retirement. “
” Strategic developments “
” Michelin is committed to recreating as many jobs as there will be deleted, “Florent Menegaux, president of the Clermont group, told AFP. The number of departures site by site will be specified in the coming months: the group’s management wishes to open negotiations “quickly” with the trade unions around a “framework agreement for a period of 3 years”.
For the past ten years, the group has been “faced with profound structural changes in the world tire market, marked in particular by the massive arrival of low-cost products”, continues Mr. Menegaux. It must therefore “support the strategic changes in its activities to prepare for the future. This is particularly the case in France where the vitality of its positions requires a significant strengthening of its competitiveness,” he underlines. “Michelin is not abandoning France” and “will reinvest part of the savings made in the development of new activities.”
For employees, it is shock and incomprehension as the a group subject to competition from tires at broken prices has already cut nearly 1,500 jobs since 2017 as part of its reorganization, particularly at its historic headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand. It also closed the sites of La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) and Bamberg in Germany.
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