Social plan at Gifi: 166 jobs are temporarily maintained at headquarters, but “stress” remains

The relief is temporary. On Wednesday, July 23, Gifi management announced that it was suspending the implementation of the job protection plan (PSE) currently underway at the Villeneuve-sur-Lot headquarters in Lot-et-Garonne. "Given the impossibility of reaching an agreement, after consultation with the CFDT, which is the majority union, management has decided not to continue implementing the PSE currently being negotiated, which provided for the elimination of 166 jobs at the plant," the Gifi group explained to Libération . According to a CFTC union representative, earlier this week, the various social partners – apart from FO – refused to sign the agreement that was supposed to formalize the PSE (including the CFDT, which subsequently obtained the suspension of the social plan) because of a draft of