• The Breton group Yves Rocher plans to cut 300 jobs over three years.

  • According to the unions, the Ploërmel factory (Morbihan), which employs 108 employees on permanent contracts, should close “at the end of 2025-beginning of 2026.”

  • The cosmetics giant justifies these job cuts by the drop in sales.

The Breton group Yves Rocher is in the middle of a storm.

Weakened by a drop in sales, the cosmetics giant plans to cut 300 jobs over three years, mainly in Brittany, we learned from management on Tuesday.

These job cuts, without layoffs, are part of an agreement Management of jobs and career paths (GEPP), signed on January 16 by the majority trade unions, management said.

An information meeting for employees on the content of this PPIM was held on Tuesday, according to a union source.

This GEPP "contains a set of measures spread over three years to adapt the organization of our Breton industrial sites and offer professional development prospects to employees in line with the desires they have been able to express", indicated the management. .

This meeting took place the day after an exceptional central social and economic committee on Monday, according to the same source.

The management justifies these job cuts by “exogenous economic factors (Covid-19, the geopolitical situation, inflation, etc.) and endogenous (the fall in mail-order sales)” which “have weakened the group.

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Women over 50 and often poorly qualified

To protest against this social plan, around fifty employees gathered on Tuesday in front of the Ploërmel factory (Morbihan).

According to the unions, the closure of the site, which employs 108 employees on permanent contracts, should take place "at the end of 2025-early 2026." On this site, the majority of employees are "women, often over 50, with low qualifications , lamented Pierrick Simon, departmental secretary FO of Morbihan.

All the conditions are met to make them long-term unemployed.

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The trade unionist stressed that these employees will be particularly penalized by the latest law which restricts the duration and the amount of unemployment benefits as well as by the one that the government wants to adopt on the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years.

“They are the ones who will pay the high price,” he said.



In addition to its original brand, Yves Rocher, the Rocher group, present in 114 countries, owns several brands, including Arbonne, Petit Bateau and Dr Pierre Ricaud.

The group employed, in 2021, 16,300 employees and cosmetics represented 78% of its turnover in the same year.

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  • Economy

  • Social plans

  • Dismissal

  • Job

  • Brittany

  • Yves Rocher

  • Cosmetic

  • Beauty