Paris (AFP)
Employees of the Parisian said Wednesday at the end of a GA that they refused the new project of their management, which provides for the suppression of its departmental editions and a departure plan.
The general assembly of employees gathered on Wednesday "refused the management plan as it stands", according to the text of a motion it adopted. She "refuses any deletion of positions, including freelancers", and "requests the restoration of local and departmental pages".
The general assembly mandated the unions to negotiate on this basis "without abolition of positions, with a greater pagination than that proposed, sanctuarized and perpetuated for local and departmental information on print and the web".
The management of the Parisian (LVMH group) announced Tuesday a plan to try to reverse the decline in sales and strengthen in digital.
This editorial project must be accompanied by a voluntary departure plan which targets 30 people out of 435 journalists in the editorial staff, with the use of a provisional job and skills management agreement (GPEC).
The nine departmental newsrooms are preserved but reduced by half (they will go from 9 to 14 journalists today to between 7 and 8) and the new unified notebook, called "Le Grand Parisien", which replaces the departmental editions, will be published with nine different covers. The newspaper has been testing this format since the start of the health crisis.
The new project also provides for the creation of new sections (feminism, tech) and aims to multiply by five the number of digital subscriptions.
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