Beef carcasses at Rungis in March 2020 (illustration) - ISA HARSIN / SIPA

This is a rather rare announcement at the moment given the very poor economic forecasts for the coming months. The family group Bigard, number one in French meat with 4.5 billion euros in turnover and in particular the Charal and Socopa brands, announced Friday the hiring of 650 people on permanent contracts by the end of l 'year.

Between 200 and 300 retirements per year

Despite “a difficult economic and social context (…) We have maintained our commitments”, welcomes Benjamin Castel, deputy general manager of the group based in Quimperlé in Finistère. To justify this choice, he recalls that there is “little turnover in the group, but we have between 200 and 300 retirements every year and as we are on jobs with strong skills. Training a boner is between two and three years, we don't want to have a blank year with repercussions on 2022 or 2023 ”.

In detail, Bigard plans to hire 150 interns as of September, as well as 500 other people "mainly on the jobs of production operators". These hires will occur in all 55 establishments, including 28 slaughterhouses, that the group has in France. Bigard will also pay 11,000 of its 14,000 employees an "engagement bonus" while they continued to work "when France was completely at a standstill". According to Benjamin Castel, the premium will amount to just over 300 euros on average per employee.

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