These deletions of posts planned over three years, without dry layoffs, are part of a job management agreement and professional careers, signed on January 16 by majority trade union organizations, said management.
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The Breton Rocher family group (formerly Yves Rocher, cosmetics), weakened by a drop in sales, plans to remove 300 positions over three years, mainly in Brittany, we learned on Tuesday, January 31 , with management.
These job cuts, without dry layoffs, are part of a job management agreement and professional careers (GEPP), signed on January 16 by majority trade union organizations, said management. An employee information meeting on the content of this GEPP was held this Tuesday, according to a union source.
This GEPP “contains a set of measures spread over three years to adapt the organization of our Breton industrial sites and offer professional development prospects to employees in line with the desires they have been able to express,” said Know the management at the France-Presse agency (AFP). This meeting intervened the day after an exceptional central social and economic committee on Monday, according to the same source.
“Exogenous cyclical elements (the covid, the geopolitical situation, inflation …) and endogenous (the fall in correspondence/VPC), in particular) weakened the group”, explained the management.
Gathering in front of the Ploërmel factory
About fifty employees participated Tuesday in a rally in front of the Ploërmel factory, we learned from a union source, according to which the closure of the site, which employs 108 employees on permanent contracts, should intervene “at the end of 2025/ early 2026 “.
In Ploërmel, the majority of employees are “women, often over 50 years old, with a low qualification. All the conditions are met to make them long -term unemployed”, deplored Pierrick Simon, Departmental Secretary Force Worker of Morbihan, solicited by AFP.
The trade unionist stressed that these employees will be particularly penalized by the last law which restricts the duration and the amount of unemployment benefits as well as by that which the government wants to adopt on the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years. “They are the ones who will pay the high price,” he said.
In addition to its original brand, Yves Rocher, the Rocher group, present in 114 countries, holds several brands, including Arbonne, Petit Bateau and Dr Pierre Ricaud. In 2021, the group employed 16,300 employees and the cosmetics represented 78 % of its turnover.