A Hop plane!
near Lyon, in August 2020. -
JP PARIENTE / SIPA
The labor administration has rejected the departure plan providing for the elimination of 1,007 positions within the airline company Hop !, a subsidiary of Air France, due to insufficient reclassification proposals, agreed sources announced on Tuesday.
The Direccte (regional labor directorate) of Pays de la Loire "clearly states that the negotiated redeployment proposals correspond to external recruitment conditions, yet we do not reclassify employees from one group to another as we recruit from 'outside,' said Emelyne Fronteau, president of the SNPL (pilots' union) at Hop !, confirming information from several media.
Reclassifications at Air France
The populations most affected by these conditions of reclassification considered to be disadvantageous are the flight attendants and the captains.
They could move to Air France but without recovering their seniority, to a non-equivalent position and without keeping their salary.
Under these conditions, "a co-pilot who joined Air France two years ago would have more priority than a (Hop!) Captain with twenty years of experience," said Emelyne Fronteau.
A social and economic committee (CSE) is scheduled for Wednesday in Nantes, the headquarters of the subsidiary.
The management of Hop!
has the possibility of presenting a new collective redundancy plan taking into account the reasons for refusal mentioned by the Direccte.
This decision of the administration "will not prevent closures already scheduled (...), so it remains a disaster", lamented Joël Rondel, CGT secretary of the CSE.
Nearly 8,500 jobs threatened within the Air France group
The voluntary departure plan (PDV) - job protection plan (PSE) of Hop!
provides for the elimination of 1,007 positions (in full-time equivalent) within the regional subsidiary of Air France, including 317 pilots, 286 cabin crew and 404 ground staff, out of a workforce of 2,421 FTE jobs.
In total, 8,500 FTE jobs must be eliminated by 2022 within Air France and Hop!
as part of the group's transformation plan.
On the short-haul network, partly provided by Hop !, Air France was losing around 200 million euros per year in 2019. Air France's transformation plan, launched before the Covid-19 crisis and accelerated with the traffic collapse due to the pandemic, foresees a "rationalization of the network and a rise in power of Transavia", the low-cost company of the group so far positioned on medium-haul, on domestic routes.
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