The oem aerospace Daher, whose activity has been strongly affected by the crisis due to the coronavirus, plans to remove up to 1 300 permanent positions in france in the framework of a restructuring plan, announced Thursday the direction. These deletions were announced at an economic and social committee-launching of the negotiations on the backup plan of employment (PSE). They will be added to the non-renewal of the vast majority of the 1 400 contracts of temporary workers that had business before the crisis.

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The group, which was founded in 1863 and controlled by the family Daher (87,5 % of the share capital and 12.5 % for Bpifrance), a total of 10 000 employees worldwide, of which nearly 8 000 in France. With the shutdown of the airline, which will take several years to climb back up the slope, and the effect will cascade on the production rates of aircraft, the impact of the Covid-19 is brutal to the oem : 60 % of its activity depends on the different branches of Airbus, who is faced with a "problem of production overcapacity" brought to continue on.

700 to 800 jobs possibly saved

The negotiation process that is undertaken on the PES concerned the removal of a "global workforce of 1,300 full-time equivalents (FTE's) potential," said Didier Kayat, executive director of Daher, at the Agence France-Presse. If "the minimum of this PES" is from "500 to 600 jobs," the group is hoping to save a maximum of "700 to 800" remaining positions thanks to the support of the State, through its plan of support to the aviation sector, and in the device business long-term partial (APLD) announced on Wednesday by the president and Emmanuel Macron.

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"We should go and look here a few of the hundreds of jobs that one could maintain, because it is the skills that are being preserved, it will be less expensive to the State to have people in part-time workers that people in unemployment and it will be less dramas of social for the people concerned," hopes Didier Kayat.

The group, which has already cut 400 jobs in the United States, Mexico, and Morocco, and also aims to be "opt out" and seek a buyer for one of its factories in france, that of Saint-Julien-de-Chédon (Loir-et-Cher). This factory of 300 people, is specialized in composite materials. "We're going to hire a firm specializing in the recovery of industrial sites to sustain the industrial activity in the county and limit the impact on employment", explained Didier Kayat, who is said to have "already had a trademark interest from oems".