Home » Industrial relations » National industrial relations » France : an agreement on the transformation of technical engineering and tertiary skills at Renault, which also provides for 2,500 voluntary departures France : an agreement on the transformation of technical engineering and tertiary skills at Renault, which also provides for 2,500 voluntary departures With more than 50% trade union representation, the signature of the CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO trade unions validates Renault’s agreement on workforce reduction and skills transformation in the automaker’s support and engineering functions. The agreement comes at a particularly challenging time in the automotive industry, and one which has been further exacerbated by the Covid-19 health crisis. In it are provisions both for implementing long-term short-time working arrangements that can be used as "a lever for transforming professions", and for a voluntary redundancy plan targeting 2,500 employees in 2021 (from a total 15,000 concerned). The agreement also includes a training plan aimed at accelerating the transformation process towards electrification, efforts to foster local social dialogue within the business lines, and to sructure a psychosocial risk prevention approach, which is all the more important in a transformation environment. Through . Published on 19 November 2020 à 16h30 - Update on 19 November 2020 à 16h59 Resources In February 2020 and just prior to the Covid-19 crisis, Renault unveiled a €2 billion three-year global cost cutting program. The ensuing health crisis and dealership closures have further exacerbated the group’s difficulties, and seen it rack up losses for the first half of 2020 of more than €7 billion. With French government pressure for progress, the trade unions secured the principle of non-recourse to a generalized redundancy plan and thus workforce reductions will proceed via the voluntary departure route. 2,500 voluntary departures. The voluntary departure plan (Collective Contractual Separation (RCC)) will run for 10 months and apply under certain conditions for employees not working in what are deemed to be strategic functions and professions.… Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messageRGPD J’accepte la politique de confidentialité.EmailThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels