Employees denounce a social plan threatening 33 jobs out of 200.
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The free newspaper 20 minutes will not appear, Friday, April 15, after a strike movement of employees protesting against a social plan threatening 33 positions out of 200, announced Thursday the Society of Journalists (SDJ) of the daily. The management confirmed at the end of the day that the newspaper would not appear, unless the strike was lifted on Thursday evening, which was not the case. The SDJ denounces “the opacity and the absence of strategy while 33 positions out of nearly 200 are threatened”. Several journalists from 20 minutes also took up this message on the social network.
Tomorrow, @20 minutes will not appear. Employees of the newspaper were on strike this Thursday, April 14, 2022 to protest against the social plan announced with brutality by their management. They denounce the opacity and the lack of strategy while 33 positions out of nearly 200 are threatened.
– SDJ 20 Minutes (@SDJ20Minutes) April 14, 2022
The employees had learned in March that the management intended to launch a social plan by the end of May which should lead to the elimination of around thirty positions and the end of the distribution of the free newspaper in several cities. It thus intends to go from twelve editions – currently eleven local and a digital national edition – to two printed editions, one for Paris/Ile-de-France and a national distributed in the regions, which will appear three times a week.
The distribution of the free newspaper is also set to disappear in four cities (Nantes, Rennes, Nice and Strasbourg) to focus in the other cities where it is already established (Paris, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Montpellier).
The objective for the management is to strengthen its position with young urbanites between the ages of 18 and 30, to regain ground in the Paris region and to develop its digital activity. Established in 2002, 20 minutes, now a subsidiary of the Ouest-France and Rossel groups, has developed strongly on the internet. But the group has been plagued by financial difficulties for several years despite several reorganizations.