Total is considering a voluntary departure plan

Total is considering a voluntary departure plan that could lead to 700 job cuts (Illustration) -

Total is planning a voluntary departure plan.

Management confirms this information.

But it does not confirm, on the other hand, the number of job cuts that such a plan could generate.

“At a minimum, 700 positions will not be replaced out of 1,400 to 1,500 employees potentially affected by a departure,” said Thierry Defresne, central union representative CGT Total refining and petrochemicals, confirming press information.

Three or four meetings with unions

According to Thierry Defresne, this is a “low estimate” which “could grow”, as part of a departure plan itself developed as part of Total's One Tech project, focused on energy development. renewable.

“Presented as necessary for the renewal of the age pyramid, it provides for the replacement of positions on industrial sites, in research and development and in technical professions, but not at headquarters,” he said.

This voluntary departure plan was officially launched on Monday.

A schedule providing for three meetings by mid-December and possibly a fourth in January has been proposed to trade unions, according to Thierry Defresne.

For "people at the end of their career"

A letter from the human resources department addressed to employees and consulted by AFP, specifies the opening "of negotiations within the scope of the Common Social Base with the exception of the sites of Donges and Grandpuits which are already the subject of specific projects ”.

The PDV would target “people at the end of their career”, on a “voluntary” basis.

“The voluntary departures of people employed in operational sites and in technical and R & D entities from what will constitute the future One Tech entity will all give rise to recruitment (…).

Conversely, the voluntary departures of people employed in the head offices (outside the One Tech perimeter) will not, except in special cases, be compensated and will not give rise to hiring ”, adds Total management in this letter.

Proposal for early retirement

Early retirement is offered "to volunteers close to retirement of some 15,000 employees under French contracts of the group, which employs a total of around 100,000 people worldwide" and intended "for those who are close to retirement and who want to go.

It is impossible to give a figure for the moment, because the negotiations will serve to define what precisely means "close to retirement" ", specified a representative of the group.

"This is an important signal sent to young people because all operational, industrial, research and development or technical positions will be replaced," he added, stressing that "Total is the only major oil major not not to have given a quantified objective of job cuts ”.

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