The procedure begins a few months after the dismissal of the CEO. That of 2020 had been followed by a social plan affecting 1,700 jobs.
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The last time that SFR staff representatives were gathered, in the fall of 2020, for a legal information procedure on the strategic guidelines of their business, management promised them that everything was fine. Four months later, she left her hat a voluntary departure plan for 1,700 people, almost one in five employees, which earned the telecoms operator to be sentenced to disloyalty by the judicial court Paris, in September 2021.
Suffice to say that prudence reigns at the edge of the new consultation on the strategy for the next three years, launched on Wednesday October 19. The procedure must last two months. The departure, October 13, as revealed by the letter A, of Arnaud Billard, the director of social relations of Altice France, the parent company of SFR and Altice Média (RMC, BFM …), three months Only after taking office, is not likely to reassure. His predecessor, Gabriel Tadjine, had only held this position for a few weeks …
At the beginning of 2022, Grégory Rabuel, the CEO of Altice France, had committed himself orally, in front of the employees, not to touch on employment until the end of 2023. But, since then, Patrick Drahi, The owner of the group, dismissed the management. In addition to Mr. Rabuel, thanked on August 23 after just a year in this position, the shareholder revoked the director of consumer activities, Fabien Costa, as well as three directors at the lower level at SFR.
“We would like to know where we are going”
The purge is probably not over. In the corridors, the bets on the maintenance in his post of the financial director of Altice France, Benjamin Haziza, are open. The name of François Vauthier, whose father, Alain, is a relative of Patrick Drahi, and who has already held the Cordons of the SFR Stock Exchange between 2016 and 2019, returns with insistence to use this key position. Contacted, a spokesperson for the operator does not comment on this starting rumor and adds that the consultation on strategic guidelines is a legal and usual procedure, organized every two years.
After the summer boost of its shareholder, the new management of the operator now plays the calm card. The first contacts between Mathieu Cocq, the new CEO of SFR, and the staff representatives took place in a good climate, according to several sources. “He said he was listening, open to discussion and aware of the difficulty of the time, after the crisis due to the COVVI-19 and the rise in inflation,” said one of them , under the cover of anonymity. The new CEO, for example, promised to open up the compulsory annual negotiations on wages for 2023 in December, that is to say a few months ahead of the usual calendar. “But we know that management always has a train in advance on us and we would like to know where we are going”, is wary of a staff representative.
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