Paris (AFP)
The president of Radio France on Thursday "suspended" the plan to cut 299 positions planned within public radio to replace it with an alternative procedure, the collective agreement break.
After 52 days of strike, Sibyle Veil announced Thursday the preparation of this collective rupture conventional in a letter sent to all employees of Radio France and that AFP was able to consult. All the representative unions asked for this measure during the negotiations, except the CGT.
But the unions are still asking, above all, to negotiate a reduction in the number of job cuts.
The CGT also renewed the strike on Thursday until Monday, January 27. Several demonstrators of the group protested in the afternoon at an event where the Minister of Culture Franck Riester inaugurated a statue.
The collective agreement rupture in its current form, resulting from the reform of the labor code of 2017, allows a company to separate from a large number of employees, on a voluntary basis, by negotiating with its unions the conditions of departures (allowances, reclassification measures ...). The agreement must be majority and approved by the administration.
Sybile Veil said it was "favorable because it allows us not only to encourage retirements in the total number of voluntary departures to be made, but also to continue to recruit".
Negotiations with management are expected to continue on Friday, according to the SNJ.
The plan presented by the management of Radio France provides for 60 million euros in savings and 299 job cuts (with 76 job creations in parallel).
The Minister of Culture Franck Riester repeated in an interview published Thursday in Liberation that, "in a context of general budgetary effort", the "effort requested from the public audiovisual sector is sustainable".
The strike movement at Radio France has experienced variable participation rates but overall declining since the start of the movement on November 25, 2019. But the disturbances continue regularly on the group's channels.
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