Elior France is Launching a Plan to Protect Its Business & Industry Contract Catering Activity
02 Octobre 2020 - 8:36AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Elior France (Paris:ELIOR):
Today, at an extraordinary meeting of its Works Council, Elior
France announced its intention to launch a job protection plan in
its Business & Industry contract catering activity.
While the health and economic crisis caused by Covid-19 has had
major impacts on the Education and Healthcare markets, these
impacts directly reflect the current situation, whereas in the
Business & Industry market of the contract catering industry,
the crisis has amplified much deeper structural changes that were
already happening pre-Covid. For many months now, daily volumes in
both the commercial and industrial sectors have been dropping
drastically while also fluctuating sharply. This has mainly been
due to a faster pace of change in the way people work, such as a
lasting increase in remote working, currently estimated at over two
days per week compared with less than one day per week a year ago.
In addition, the reduction in business activity experienced by many
clients - leading to site closures in some cases - has had a
direct, immediate, and lasting economic impact on Elior France’s
activities in the Business & Industry market.
Well before the crisis, Elior had embarked on a thorough
business transformation, launching culinary and digital innovations
to propose catering offerings more closely aligned with the new
expectations of Business & Industry clients and guests. We took
additional action during the national lockdown in France to adapt
to new market realities, such as systematically renegotiating
clients’ contracts, using vacation days, setting up training
sessions, drawing on internal mobility, and using
government-sponsored furlough and partial activity work
programs.
Today, Elior Business & Industry and Arpège need to make
more extensive structural changes to ensure their long-term
viability. That is the aim of the plan presented to the Company’s
employee representatives today. This reorganization would entail
the elimination of 1,888 positions, spread out over nearly 1,260
B&I sites operated by Elior Entreprises and Arpège across
France.
"The company will now begin a process of consultation and
dialogue with our employee representatives to limit the impact of
this project on employment as much as possible. That is my
intention, and we have the means to do it. As many affected
employees as possible will be offered transfers to other Group
activities in France - in catering and in services - using current
vacancies, positions created by this project, and the usual
turnover. We estimate that more than 1,000 positions could be
available in the coming year," says Frédéric Galliath, Managing
Director of the Elior France B&I business.
In addition to the job protection plan, to cope with the lower
level of activity directly caused by the health crisis, Elior
intends to make long-term use of partial activity at sites where
such a system is both possible (i.e. major sites) and appropriate.
Elior B&I’s management team will be keeping employees regularly
informed throughout the process via their employee representative
bodies.
The English-language version
of this document is a free translation from the original, which was
prepared in French. All possible care has been taken to ensure that
the translation is an accurate representation of the original.
However, in all matters of interpretation of information, views or
opinion expressed therein, the original language version of this
document in French takes precedence over this
translation.
About Elior France
French leader in contract catering, Elior France offers
customized solutions and innovative concepts in catering and
services, in the world of education, business and healthcare. Every
day, Elior France's 24,200 employees passionately welcome and take
care of more than 1.4 million guests. Elior France is particularly
attentive to the health and well-being of its guests, the
professional development of its employees and the impact of its
activities on the environment.
For further information please visit our website: elior.com /
Twitter : @Elior_France
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