The aeronautical equipment supplier Daher, whose activity has been strongly affected by the crisis due to the coronavirus, plans to cut up to 1,300 permanent jobs as part of a restructuring plan, management announced on Thursday.
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Deletions in addition to the non-renewal of certain temporary workers
These cuts were announced at a social and economic committee to launch negotiations on the job protection plan (PSE). They will be added to the non-renewal of the vast majority of the 1,400 temporary contracts that the company had before the crisis. The group, founded in 1863 and controlled by the Daher family (87.5% of the capital and 12.5% for Bpifrance), has 10,000 employees worldwide, including nearly 8,000 in France.
With the stopping of air transport, which will take several years to go up the slope, and the cascading effect on aircraft production rates, the impact of the Covid-19 is brutal for the equipment manufacturer: 60% of its activity depends on the different branches of Airbus, which is faced with a "production overcapacity problem" which is going to persist. The negotiations that have started on the PES concern the abolition of a "global workforce of 1,300 potential full-time equivalents (FTEs)", said Didier Kayat, CEO of Daher.
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The group hopes to save a maximum of the "700 to 800" remaining positions thanks to the state
If "the minimum of this PSE" is "500 to 600 positions", the group hopes to save a maximum of the "700 to 800" remaining positions thanks to state support measures, via its plan to support the aeronautical sector and the long-term partial activity plan (APLD) announced Wednesday by President Emmanuel Macron.
"We should look here for a few hundred jobs that we could preserve, because it is skills that we preserve, it will cost the State less to have people in partial activity than people who are unemployed and it will make less social drama for the people concerned, "hopes Didier Kayat.
The group, which has already cut 400 jobs in the United States, Mexico and Morocco, also intends to "disengage" and look for a buyer for one of its French factories, that of Saint-Julien-de-Chédon (Loir -and-Expensive). This 300-person factory specializes in composite materials.
"We are going to mandate a firm specializing in the resumption of industrial sites to perpetuate industrial activity in the department and limit the impact on employment," explained Mr. Kayat, who said he had "already had marks of interests of equipment manufacturers ".