Airports lack safety agents, maintenance technicians, but also engineers, while activity seems to start back earlier than expected.
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a Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and in Orly, according to the ADP group, manager of the two airports, 4,000 positions would be filled. But ADP, like the myriad of subcontractors at work, would encounter “enormous” difficulties in recruiting, said on Thursday April 28, Augustin de Romanet, CEO of the airport manager. After having separated from 1,150 employees as part of a collective contractual termination agreement (RCC) in 2021, ADP Group wishes to hire 600 people, to support the return of the activity. In particular in anticipation of the influx of passengers on the occasion of the summer holidays.
are concerned as a priority of safety agents, maintenance technicians, but also engineers. It’s urgent. The activity seems to start again faster and more strongly than expected. In the first quarter, ADP traffic has already reached 72 % of its 2019 level. Roissy and Orly airports could regain their normal activity with a year in late 2023-debut 2024.
“A little bit of temporary work”
“Our activity leaves but we are perfectly in time for our hires because we have already recruited 200 employees, a third of the 600 people we are looking for,” said Laurent Gasse, Director of Human Resources of ADP Group. “To recruit, we are faced with the same difficulties as other companies. It is not a question of hiring salary but rather how to find staff,” he adds. No agreement, retorts Daniel Bertone, secretary general of the CGT of ADP. According to him, ADP “is struggling to recruit because its wage proposals are below that of competition. They are even forced to give fictitious seniority to the new hires”.
Among subcontractors, the vigor of the takeover has no positive consequences on employment. “There are no hirings at all. Only a little bit of temporary work,” laments Imad Dachroune, South American union representative at 3s Alyzia, one of the big subcontractors of Roissy and Orly . According to him, companies will have “drawn a double benefit from the crisis: after having dismissed employees with twenty-five to thirty years of seniority, they will rehire staff paid in the minimum wage”.
Inflation obliges, wage claims may increase the tension. “Summer could be tense”, threatens Mr. Bertone, who wrote on Monday May 2 at the CEO of Group ADP to claim “the opening of new negotiations on wages and the stop of the economies plan which must ‘End at the end of 2023 “. The CGT of Roissy militates even for a convergence of struggles. The local union of the union called on all employees of the Roissy platform to demonstrate Thursday, June 9. Just before the big departures on vacation.