A JCDecaux bus shelter (illustration).

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VARELA / 20 MINUTES

The health crisis continues to hit the business world hard.

Outdoor advertising specialist JCDecaux wants around 5% of its workforce to leave.

It will also implement a long-term partial activity device, its management confirmed on Monday.

Negotiations with unions

“These two measures, measured and adapted to our situation, would make it possible, subject to majority agreements, not to commit to forced departures but exclusively voluntary,” said JCDecaux.

According to Jean-Pierre Viaud, delegate of the CGT JCDecaux the 5th union of the company, "the management communicated on 158 departures" during a meeting on Monday concerning a collective contractual rupture, but "its objective is 5% of staff, ie between 150 and 170 departures ”out of around 3,300 employees.

"It's very tense in the company," commented the trade unionist, while a meeting on a long-term partial activity project is scheduled for Wednesday.

“We have been in partial activity since confinement and the resumption of activity is very slow,” he continued.

"Management wants to achieve fairly quickly on both projects."

“She speaks of a PES as an alternative”, underlined Jean-Pierre Viaud, who sees it as “blackmail for employment”.

According to him, the subject of long-term partial activity will be "the most conflicting" because of the associated reduction in remuneration, while management has already announced that there will be no profit-sharing in 2021 (for fiscal year 2020).

41.6% drop in sales in the first half

Since the planetary containment which plunged its turnover by 41.6% in the first half of the year, the French giant of bus shelters, information screens and billboards in streets, train stations and airports has seen signs of recovery. its activity but remains dependent on the evolution of the pandemic.

As a direct consequence of this spectacular decline in sales, the group plunged into the red in the first half, with a net loss of 254.9 million euros and suspended its forecasts.

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