French automaker Renault plans to cut about 15,000 jobs worldwide, including 4,600 in France, as part of a two-billion-euro savings plan over three years.
The plan, which is due to be released to the public on Friday morning, was announced Thursday evening to the union’s labor organizations.
It plans to reduce the workforce “without layoffs”, through voluntary departures, internal mobility measures or retraining.
The group’s global production capacities should be reduced, from 4 million vehicles currently to around 3.3 million, on a two-team basis (which corresponds to a higher potential real production by adding a third team) .
In France, an “information-consultation” procedure for employee representatives will begin “from mid-June”, according to a union source.
A group board of directors was convened Thursday evening.
According to concordant sources, the savings plan of 2 billion euros is distributed for approximately “a third on production, a third on engineering and a third on structural, marketing and network costs”.
The activity of the Choisy-le-Roi plant (Val-de-Marne) transferred to the Flins plant
Regarding the production sites in France, the activity of the Choisy-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne) factory, which employs 260 people in the repair of engines and gearboxes used as re-use parts, must be transferred to the factory in Flins (Yvelines), around 60 km away. In Flins, car production will stop after the Zoe ends within a few years.
The management told the CCSE that there would be “a reflection for the creation in Flins of an ecosystem on the circular economy which would integrate Choisy-le-Roi,” said a union source.
The project provides for “a strategic review of the foundry-cast iron system in France”, which concerns the future of the Foundry of Brittany in Caudan (Morbihan), said this source. The site employs nearly 400 people.
The plan also announces a reflection “to imagine a conversion project in Dieppe at the end of the production of the Alpine 110”, added this source.
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