In 2022, almost 10 % of the workforce of the telecoms operator in France used a senior part -time system authorizing the oldest employees to anticipate their retirement.
by Olivier Pinaud
Orange managers could almost want to go down the street to protest against the pension reform. By promising to postpone retirement age to 64 years and extend the duration of the subscription, the government’s project promises to be expensive for the telecom operator.
In December 2021, during the renewal for a year of its senior part -time (TPS) system authorizing its older employees to anticipate their retirement, Orange had agreed to integrate a backup clause to protect beneficiaries of a possible reform. Badly took him. The operator still has trouble encrypting precisely the additional cost, but it could revolve around an additional six months per employee, if the current government project is successful.
reform or not, the TPS will cost more than expected in Orange. Seeing the government’s plan arrive, many employees of the still hesitant group have decided in the last weeks of 2022 to take the system before the deadline of December 31. Result, according to the latest count obtained by MO12345lemonde, 7,600 employees of Orange France, the only entity concerned, activated their TPS.
“Dysfunctions and work overload”
Initially, the group had budgeted in its 2021 accounts that the system would cost it 1.225 billion euros. Given the number of beneficiaries greater than the initial hypotheses, the invoice promises to be more salty. The exact figure should be given on February 16, during the presentation of the 2022 results, the date on which Christel Heydemann, Director General of Orange since April 2022, must also reveal his strategic plan.
In the Orange France teams, including the director general, Fabienne Dulac, will pass her hand to Jean-François Fallacher on April 3, we worry about seeing so many colleagues at the same time, sometimes very quickly according to of the leave of leave accumulated by some. The 7,600 TPS of 2022 represent almost 10 % of the total workforce of the French entity. Half of the beneficiaries come from central and support functions.
“Certain services have seen more than 20 % of their employees leave which creates dysfunctions and work overload for those who remain”, worries a staff representative, who fears an increased appeal to subcontracting . Technical skills also sometimes lack. These 7,600 are added to the 11,900 employees who benefited from previous TPS agreements on December 31, 2021
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