Three of the four representative organizations (FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC, the CGT not being signatories) initialed an agreement a few days ago recasting in ten texts common to the whole group the 174 agreements in force for the years 1970, told journalists the France director of human resources, Mikaël Butterbach.
"We negotiated for more than 19 months on the themes of social protection, working hours, leave, compensation," he explained about this project called "Reload".
The "same rules" will apply to the group's 48,000 or so employees in France, whether they work in the commercial aircraft division, defense and space or the helicopter division, according to him.
They will enter into force on January 1, 2024, corresponding to that of the new collective agreement for the metallurgy industry.
Employees will, for example, be able to benefit from five additional days for the arrival of a child, from “12 days to support caring employees”, from an improved health and provident agreement, he detailed.
In return, the working time is annualized, the paid retirement notice goes from two to three months.
“We were driven by a concern for cost neutrality,” according to Thierry Baril, the group's global human resources director.
Airbus, which announced last month its intention to recruit 13,000 people worldwide in 2023, of which 7,000 will be net job creations, also specified on Monday that 3,500 hires will be made in France.
"Half represents the replacement of natural departures, the other half of job creations," said Mr. Baril.
The company had made the same number of recruitments last year, to respond to the ramp-up of its aircraft production and to prepare green aircraft technologies.
Of this total, 2,300 hires will concern commercial aircraft, 700 defense and space, and 500 helicopters.
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