Friday, February 19, 2016

Peugeot to chop 850 jobs at Poissy mill



French auto manufacturer protein Peugeot Citroen plans to chop the night shift and 850 jobs at its Poissy mill in Yvelines close to Paris to adapt to lower output levels, per 3 trades union sources.

The move, which is able to not involve any obligatory redundancies among the four,500-strong force, was bestowed to employee representatives at a rare council meeting, the sources aforementioned on Th.

A representative for the corporate confirmed that one shift could also be removed over a chronic amount of your time, however wouldn't touch upon the figures concerned.

"Based on projected volumes in 2017, we have a tendency to could got to regulate our manner of operating with a progressive move from 3 shifts to 2," the representative aforementioned.

The Poissy website took over production of Citroen C3s antecedently created at Aulnay-sous-Bois following the closure of that mill, additionally close to Paris.

C3 cars square measure attributable to be created in European nation starting in 2017. Output at Poissy is ready to fall to one hundred forty,000 cars that year, and to 120,000-130,000 in 2018, compared with 235,000 projected for 2016.

Another set of staff - between 210 and 218 - at numerous protein sites square measure to be transferred out of the corporate and re-employed by the support services firm Cap Gemini, the sources aforementioned. Cap Gemini declined to comment.

In a statement the CGT union aforementioned it's "in complete disagreement with this policy of outsourcing" and asked that those staff WHO wanted to ought to be allowed to remain used by protein.

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