Antoine Peyratout, director general of the gas turbines entity of the General Electric (GE) factory in Belfort, and his director of human resources asked to benefit from the current voluntary departure plan, we learned on Monday unions, dissatisfied with this situation.
The social plan provides for the elimination of 485 jobs out of 1,750 on the production site of gas turbines (GE EPF) in several phases. The first concerns 294 files, which were accepted by the monitoring committee.
It has already received more applications than places available for this first phase which was initially scheduled to end in late March. The last two files validated were those of Antoine Peyratout and Catherine Letang, the director of human resources, we learned from union sources.
“These are the last two files accepted,” said a union source, confirming information from L’Est Républicain.
Both have managed the social plan and the fact that they benefit from it makes employees and unions cringe.
“These are people necessarily aware of the articulation of the plan,” regrets on condition of anonymity a union representative, who evokes a problem of “insider trading, in quotes”. “They benefited from information that other employees did not have,” he regrets.
This departure “is not moral, but they bring nothing industrially”, carried away another union representative wishing to remain anonymous. They were there only “to clean up”. “I ask only one thing, that they break,” he continues furiously.
“In the end, the unions negotiated well for him,” smiled a last elected union official with sarcasm. “One can imagine that, given their basic salary and their seniority, they will have a more than comfortable bonus.”
Mr. Peyratout, who did not wish to react, “was not necessarily appointed to set up a social plan but to rectify the situation of GE EPF”, we respond in the entourage of management.
“We take note of this decision and we are implementing a transition,” said a spokesperson for General Electric.
Originally, 792 jobs were to be eliminated on the General Electric gas turbine entity, but this number was reduced after negotiations to 485. The company had 1,760 employees on April 30, 2019 and the workforce must be reduced to 1,275 by the end of the year.
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