They demand more effort from their group, which has to deal with many debts. Employees of the Gorillas express home shopping delivery platform went on strike on Monday, dissatisfied with management’s proposals as part of the job protection plan, according to the CGT.
About thirty employees gathered Monday in front of the Paris headquarters of Gorillas. The brand – like Frichti – belongs to the Turkish giant Getir, whose French subsidiary has been in receivership since March. The group has “undertaken a PSE”, job safeguard plan, for Gorillas but “with a purpose that it refuses to communicate” and without “nothing” to offer concrete, criticized Rémy Frey, of the CGT.
“After two years of existence in France and incredible injections of cash to hold on, [le groupe Getir] cannot turn off the tap and make the AGS responsible for paying social charges (salary guarantee scheme, editor’s note)”, considers Rémy Frey.
Hundreds of employees threatened
Getir France, a subsidiary of the Turkish group Getir, announced in May that it was considering parting with 900 employees of the three entities, Getir, but also Gorillas and Frichti, which it acquired.
In Gorillas, 264 permanent jobs out of around 500 in total are threatened, CGT Gorillas union representative Arnaud Coulibaly told AFP. “I am falling ill, psychologically. I am not a person who can find work easily”, deplores Souleymane Bamba, 37, in charge of equipment at Gorillas, who knows that he will “leave”.
The strikers demand in particular “the establishment of a serious voluntary departure plan” as well as “the allocation of additional funds to finance severance pay beyond the legal requirements”, can we read in a press release . Contacted by AFP, the Getir group did not react immediately.
Monday, an inter-union (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT) of Getir France also denounced “the weak financial proposal” made by the company, within the framework of its own PSE, each of the three entities having its own plan to safeguard the ‘job.
Despite a cumulative turnover of the three brands of around 120 million euros in 2022, and in clear growth in recent years, the group totaled 200 million euros in debt at the end of March 2023, according to an internal note. to the company that AFP consulted.
The group accuses “an unfavorable contextual environment”, with inflation and regulatory tightening, a reason also cited by the French subsidiary of the German group Flink placed in receivership in June.