France Telecom: The management makes progress, employees show
The management of France Telecom has made progress Tuesday to improve working conditions for employees at a negotiating meeting on stress, when employees expressed through rallies and strikes their rejection of suffering at work.
The CEO of France Telecom, Didier Lombard, with the new number 2 of group Stéphane Richard, named Monday, Tuesday presented the unions with a series of measures to establish “a new social contract” to try to stop suicide -24 in less than two years, which have plunged the group.
“I can accept that some of our employees arrive at work stressed out,” he said, proposing to relax the conditions for mobility of employees, including employees at least three years of retirement or those opting for a ” Senior part-time, which may not be an “unwanted mobility.
He also pledged to ensure that employees receive “a period of three years of stability after a minimum functional and geographical mobility.
France Telecom had already announced on Monday gel mutations through December.
Stéphane Richard, a former chief of staff of the Minister of Economy Christine Lagarde, May 7, 2009 in Paris
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Among his other proposals, the CEO wants to give “more flexibility at local level” managers, “enabling everyone to take leave” and allow “personalization of the workplace”.
In a letter sent to employees Tuesday, Stéphane Richard promised he would carry with them “social renewal which the company needs.
For its part, Patrice Diochet (CFTC) said he was “satisfied with the new mood of France Telecom.
“These are opening measures,” acknowledged Peter Morville (CFE-CGC), while calling for “measures for employees ages.
Christian Mathorel (SGC) hoped it the “emergency” as “a volume of job creation” and “suspension of all the tools of performance measurement.
Des salariés de France Télécom sont rassemblés à Caen le 6 octobre 2009
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The unions will also be received Thursday by the president of the UMP group in the Assembly Jean-Francois Cope.
Management believes that 15.37% of employees were on strike Tuesday, 30% by South PTT.
It is a “prelude” to a new day of action on Wednesday, according to Pierre Dubois (CFDT), within a day of interprofessional action “Decent Work”.
Patrick Ackermann (South PTT) has hailed “a rate of interest, knowing that there are two day action, while Sandrine Leroy (FP) said that many employees have already disconnected Thursday at the funeral of the last employee who committed suicide.
In Paris, between 200 and 300 employees gathered outside the headquarters of the group, chanting “Resistance” and “employees in anger, it will not let do”.
In Rennes, 300 people gathered and Nantes, employees waved placards “Tired of counting the dead” or “No, suicide is no longer a fad.”
“I am among those who farted cable. (…) I’m taking anti-depressants,” he testified Beatrice, quarantine, during a demonstration in Caen.
Some employees have also gathered in Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire), Montluçon (Allier) and Grenoble. In Annecy and Annecy-le-Vieux (Haute-Savoie), which worked the employee who committed suicide September 28, the CFDT has recorded 70% of the 600 striking employees.
In Cahors (Lot), employees of a site threatened with transfer to Montauban, also marched, as in Bordeaux, Nice, Montpellier and Marseille.