France's EDF plans to cut around 6 percent of jobs at its French power generation unit between 2017-2019, equivalent to more than 4,000 positions, as part of a broader restructuring at the state-controlled utility, it said on Thursday
France's EDF plans to cut
around 6 percent of jobs at its French power generation unit
between 2017-2019, equivalent to more than 4,000 positions, as
part of a broader restructuring at the state-controlled utility,
it said on Thursday.
EDF said there would be no redundancies as the firm would be
encouraging staff to leave on a voluntary basis, and added it
also planned to hire 2,500 staff between 2017-2018.
It did not give the exact number of job losses in its
statement, but an EDF spokeswoman said that at the end of 2016,
the generation unit - EDF SA - employed 68,464 people. This
means a six percent reduction would amount to about 4,110 job
cuts.
In January 2016, EDF had said it planned to cut 5 percent of
EDF SA staff without redundancies over three years.
At the end of 2015, EDF SA employed 71,580, the spokeswoman
said. That suggests most of that reduction was achieved last
year.
The job cuts do not affect EDF's grid units RTE and Enedis,
its renewable energy unit EDF Energies Nouvelles or its energy
services unit Dalkia.
At the end of 2015 - numbers for the entire group at the end
of 2016 are not yet available - EDF employed 159,112 people
worldwide, including 133,406 in France, the spokeswoman said.
(Reuters)
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