Regarding Renault (removing 10% of the workforce is enormous) I think rather that it is a start of massive outsourcing ... firing from the world when you earn money is that it ...
Renault announces new sedan and… 6 000 departures
Automobile. In a difficult context, the manufacturer is looking to regain ground.
Carlos Ghosn is not endowed with the gift of ubiquity but, yesterday, the group he leads managed to unveil at the same time in Geneva the new model of his Mégane, and in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) in the central works council (CCE), a social plan weighed down to 6 000 job cuts in France by 30 April 2009. Renault was therefore on two fronts, one commercial, the other social. On the one hand, it is relaunching, with the Mégane III sedan, the heart of its range. After the failure of sales of the Laguna, the French bet on the most important segment in Western Europe, the mid-range (read opposite). La Mégane represents 30% of group sales. What hope to regain ground on its competitors when Renault went from 10,6% of the market share in Europe in 2003 to 7,6% in 2008 (passenger cars).
In the meantime, and in order to "regain competitiveness", Renault has confirmed the plan for voluntary departures of 4 000 employees in France, including 1 000 in Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) which manufactures the disappointing Laguna. A plan revealed on July 24, along with an increase in the operating margin in the first half of 2008, to 4,1% of turnover, against 3,5% in the first half of 2007. Renault also maintains its objective of reaching 6% by 2009. Yesterday, 2 000 job cuts were added to the 4 000 already planned. Formalized on September 18, they will concern the group's subsidiaries in France and in Europe.
Meeting on the occasion of the CCE, the CGT, the first union represented at Renault, called a strike Thursday on all French sites. "With the sole aim of achieving its target of 6% operating margin, management is eliminating 6 000 positions, suffocating subcontractors and slowing down the renewal of the range," protested Fabien Gache, central delegate. “Meanwhile, the dividends paid to shareholders amounted to 500 million euros in 2005 and should, with identical capital structure, amount to 1 300 million euros in 2009, "he added.
Source: http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/econ ... 100.FR.php
In fact what is a voluntary departure? From what I saw at the JT there are not a lot of voluntary volunteers ...
