REPORTING. “Impatient to know” what will become of them, Casino employees are awaiting details on the group’s safeguarding plan

Between 1,300 and 3,200 jobs will be eliminated in the job protection plan for the new bosses of the Casino group. The difference is due to the twenty or so department stores and warehouses that the group is trying to resell without having yet succeeded. At the Casino France headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, employees are waiting to be decided on their fate.

Most employees at Casino France’s head office do not wish to speak out. Those who do so ultimately don’t know much about the job cuts plan. The range is wide between 1,300 and 3,200 and the modalities are still unclear, as is the distribution of jobs eliminated according to the subsidiaries.

“It’s going to take time.”

François works at the group’s central purchasing office, but he notes that the plan is less massive than he feared: “We were expecting something massive, up to 6,000 job cuts, we are starting on a basis of a minimum of 1,200 job cuts. It’s a lot, of course. It’s a lot for the people who will be impacted, but it is a less catastrophic scenario than it could have been. Where there will be the most impact, it will be to be seen in detail afterwards. than a very ‘macro’ vision. We will have to have a much more targeted vision by sites, by services. It’s a little more complex, it will take time. We will know more tomorrow.

“It’s obviously Casino that is most impacted. As for the impact on the Monoprix and Franprix subsidiaries, we don’t quite know yet.”

Among young employees, while some wish to stay in the company for a fresh start, others are more pessimistic like this one who wanted to remain anonymous: “We must have meetings in the coming days to find out in detail who will be affected here, like in the stores or the warehouses. We are very impatient to know what we will become. The atmosphere is a little gloomy, We don’t know what we’re going to do next. It’s difficult to plan ahead. There are already colleagues who are taking the lead and looking for work elsewhere.” The only known detail of the reorganization plan: the Saint-Étienne head office would retain just over 1,000 jobs out of 1,500.