The management of the furniture brand Conforama confirmed Thursday the unions his plan to remove 1,900 jobs and closure of 32 stores in France, according to a shop steward. Dozens of employees gathered Thursday morning at the call of the CGT in front of a hotel in Torcy, near the headquarters of the company located in Lognes, Seine-et-Marne, where is held Thursday a central committee of (CCE) to detail the restructuring plan and accompanying measures for job cuts.
Force Ouvrier denounces in a statement Thursday morning the character "ultra-minimalist social measures presented (nothing above the legal), which does not take into account the resources of the group Conforama high international and who has nothing to see with the measures announced by other signs much more generous with the employees ".
The fear of a second wave of layoffs
Staff representatives on Tuesday at the Ministry of Economy and Finance have expressed concern that "this PES is not the last and is followed by a second wave of closures and layoffs," according to the statement of FO . The management of Conforama ensures that there is "only one plan".
"Of the 193 Conforama stores in France, 76 were declared loss-making as a result of a financial analysis, and optimization measures were subsequently applied to these 76 stores, but it turned out that despite this, 32 of They were to be closed and we firmly denied that the 44 others were promised to close "and" that there is a plan 'hidden' liquidation of the sign, "she told AFP Wednesday. The company, owned by the South African group Steinhoff, invokes large cumulative losses, of the order of "nearly 500 million euros" in France since 2013.