SNCF announces the elimination of 2,000 to 3,000 jobs
President Emmanuel Macron and SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou at Gare de Lyon in Paris, September 17, 2021. REUTERS - POOL
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While the SNCF is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its high-speed train this Friday in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, its CEO announced in the morning that the group planned to cut between 2,000 and 3,000 jobs.
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No deadline has been given, but the elimination is significant: between 2,000 and 3,000 jobs.
It's a little less than 2% of the workforce that will disappear.
Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF, gave several justifications at the microphone of BFMTV this Friday, September 17: the Covid-19 epidemic which continued this year and which the group had not foreseen in its budgets ;
the need to be "
competitive
" in the face of competition.
Increase the share of rail
The group was affected during the pandemic. In particular by the decline in business customers. Jean-Pierre Farandou wants to save money while the competition is on the tip of its nose. The SNCF also recently lost
the TER line between Marseille and Nice
. Market won by the Transdev group. “
We're going to win and we're going to lose. When a monopoly opens up to competition, we can only lose. It's almost mechanical. What I want is certainly competition to arrive in the rail industry. But I want the rail pie to grow when the competition comes in,
he said.
I want ten years from now to have twice as many passengers on trains and twice as many goods on trains, and not in trucks.
Let's not forget about the goods.
"
In recent years, employment has melted away at the SCNF.
A recent social report shows that the railway company cut 7,000 jobs between 2017 and 2019.
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