This is approximately 10% of the workforce of pilots of Air France who could leave the company by the end of the year. The national Union of airline pilots, majority union among pilots of the company, has given the green light to sign an agreement to break the conventional collective which provides for the voluntary departure of a maximum of 403 pilots of Air France. The agreement "end-of-sector A380 organizing the mobility of drivers" has also been accepted by the union. These two texts will be signed in the coming days, told Agence France-Presse Guillaume Schmid, vice-president of the SNPL Air France.
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The agreement related to the imminent release of the A380 fleet Air France provides " the mobility of the pilot to other flight sectors and their training courses to obtain qualifications on other devices, said Guillaume Schmid. On the 403 departures provided for by the rupture of conventional collective (RCC), device recent to delete items via a voluntary departure, without economic justification, and the term of an agreement of the majority, 215 seats are reserved for pilots of the A380.
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other negotiations
These departures will have to be numbers between mid-August and the end of December 2020, according to the SNPL. Drivers who agree to go see "their career-end compensation an additional 4 or 5 months salary," added Mr. Schmid. The RCC is intended for pilots with conversion projects or eligible winding-up to 2020 to their retirement (from 60 years of age, via the CRPN, the pension fund of seafarers). "Our goal is the protection of the employment of the drivers in the current context ", pointed out Guillaume Schmid. The agreement of the CBI act provides " a guarantee of employment up to April 2021 ", he said.
The trade unions Spaf and Alter were also involved in the negotiations with the management. "The solutions for the pilots of the A380 are not sufficient ", regretted Gregory Aplincourt, the Spaf (second union among pilots), who was interviewed by Agence France-Presse, without a position on the RCC. The drivers still need to continue negotiations with management over a possible transfer of pilots of Air France to the company's low-cost Transavia, also owned by the Air France group.
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other deletions announced in the beginning of July ?
"The problem is not the transfer of the pilot but of the domestic lines" Air France to Transavia, which could confuse the customer business of the company tri-colored and the far flights medium and long-haul, warns Gregory Aplincourt. The unions of cabin crew, Air France also conduct discussions with management on a CCR with a little planning more than 1 700 departures that are not forced.
The other staff waiting for the presentation to the trade union organizations, during an economic and social committee central (CMEF) in extraordinary 3 July, to know the number of job cuts planned by the management for the whole company, whose business was as that of its competitors update suddenly off by the outbreak of Covid-19. Unions expect thousands of job losses within the Air France group.
